Cultural One Or the Racial Many - Religion, Culture and the Interethnic Experience

List of contents

1. Cultural Explanation and the Question of Intergroup Life. 2. Culture and Ethnicity: A Crossnational Contrast. 3. The Meeting of Dominant and Minority Cultures: Integration vs. Separatism. 4. Miscegenation and Intermarriage in the Formation of Society. 5. The Psychosocial Aspect: Group Consciousness and Cultural Identity. 6. Revisiting Secularization: Religion as Implicit Normative System. 7. The Church in Brazil: Folk Catholicism and Ethnic Assimilation. 8. The Church in the United States: Calvinistic Protestantism and Ethnic Assimilation. 9. Conclusions.

Summary

First published in 1997, this study aims, first, to enlarge upon the understanding of race and ethnicity through a culturalist-comparative frame of analysis, instead of the standard quantitative and political-economy approaches and secondly, to analyse in systematic form the religious constitution of sociocultural life.

Additional text

’A must-read, especially for those who disagree.’ Professor Martin Riesebrodt, University of Chicago, USA

Product details

• Authors: Evandro Camara, Camara Evandro
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2019
• EAN: 9781138391499
• ISBN: 978-1-138-39149-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, RELIGION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Religion: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity