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Race, nation, and religion in the Americas / edited by Henry Goldschmidt and Elizabeth McAlister.

Contributor(s): Goldschmidt, Henry | McAlister, Elizabeth A
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford, England ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xiii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 019514919X (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780195149197 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): America -- Race relations -- History | America -- Religion | Blacks -- America -- Religion | African Americans -- Religion | Indians -- Religion | Jews -- America -- HistoryDDC classification: 305.6/0973 LOC classification: E29.A1 | R33 2004Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Race and religion on the periphery : disappointment and missionization in the Spanish Floridas, 1566-1763 / Daniel Murphree -- The Jew in the Haitian imagination : a popular history of anti-Judaism and proto-racism / Elizabeth McAlister -- A great racial commission : religion and the construction of white America / Daniel B. Lee -- Catholic Afro mass and the dance of eurocentrism in Brazil / John Burdick -- "Marked in body, mind and spirit" : home missionaries and the remaking of race and nation / Derek Chang -- "In search of souls, in search of Indians" : religion and the "Indian problem" in northern Mexico / Julia Cummings O'Hara -- Catholics, Creoles and the redefinition of race in New Orleans / James B. Bennett -- Beyond the binary : revisiting Father Divine, Daddy Grace, and their ministries / Danielle Brune Sigler -- Legislating "civilization" in postrevolutionary Haiti / Kate Ramsey -- The civilization of white men : the race of the Hindu in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind / Jennifer Snow -- The House of Saint Benedict, the House of Father John : Umbanda aesthetics and a politics of the senses / Lindsay Hale -- Projecting Blackness : African-American religion in the Hollywood imagination / Judith Weisenfeld.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Race and religion on the periphery : disappointment and missionization in the Spanish Floridas, 1566-1763 / Daniel Murphree -- The Jew in the Haitian imagination : a popular history of anti-Judaism and proto-racism / Elizabeth McAlister -- A great racial commission : religion and the construction of white America / Daniel B. Lee -- Catholic Afro mass and the dance of eurocentrism in Brazil / John Burdick -- "Marked in body, mind and spirit" : home missionaries and the remaking of race and nation / Derek Chang -- "In search of souls, in search of Indians" : religion and the "Indian problem" in northern Mexico / Julia Cummings O'Hara -- Catholics, Creoles and the redefinition of race in New Orleans / James B. Bennett -- Beyond the binary : revisiting Father Divine, Daddy Grace, and their ministries / Danielle Brune Sigler -- Legislating "civilization" in postrevolutionary Haiti / Kate Ramsey -- The civilization of white men : the race of the Hindu in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind / Jennifer Snow -- The House of Saint Benedict, the House of Father John : Umbanda aesthetics and a politics of the senses / Lindsay Hale -- Projecting Blackness : African-American religion in the Hollywood imagination / Judith Weisenfeld.

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