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Zusatztext makes these essays so provocative, timely and novel ... the essays in Iace, nation, and religion in the Americas have provided a welcome and challenging contribution to an ongoing and increasingly lively dicussion of religion in the modern world. Informationen zum Autor Henry Goldschmidt is Assistant Professor of Religion and Society at Wesleyan University. His research has focused on Black-Jewish difference in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. Elizabeth McAlister is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and in the programs in American Studies, African-American Studies, and Latin American Studies at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Rara!: Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and its Diaspora (2002). Klappentext This collection of all new essays explores the complex and unstable articulations of race and religion that have helped to produce "Black," "White," "Creole," "Indian," "Asian," and other racialized identities and communities in the Americas. Drawing on original research in a range of disciplines, the authors investigate: 1) how the intertwined categories of race and religion have defined, and been defined by, global relations of power and inequality; 2) how racial and religious identities shape the everyday lives of individuals and communities; and 3) how racialized and marginalized communities use religion and religious discourses to contest the persistent power of racism in societies structured by inequality. Taken together, these essays will define a new standard of critical conversation on race and religion throughout the Americas. Zusammenfassung This collection of all new essays will explore the complex and unstable articulations of race and religion that have helped to produce 'Black', 'White', 'Creole', 'Indian', 'Asian', and other racialized identities and communities in the Americas.
