race and scripture in the Protestant Atlantic world, 1600-2000 /
First Statement of Responsibility
Colin Kidd.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (vii, 309 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-304) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Prologue : race in the eye of the beholder -- Introduction : race as scripture problem -- Race and religious orthodoxy in the early modern era -- Race, the Enlightenment and the authority of scripture -- Monogenesis, slavery and the nineteenth-century crisis of faith -- The Aryan moment : racialising religion in the nineteenth century -- Forms of racialized religion -- Black counter-theologies.
0
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
This book explores the way in which religious ideas have shaped British and American thinking about race between 1600 and 2000. It shows that the Bible has been just as influential as science over the last few centuries in forging racial attitudes and identities.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Forging of races.
International Standard Book Number
0521797292
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Bible-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Race-- Biblical teaching.
Race-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.
Bibel-- Rasse-- Geschichte Neuzeit.
Etnicitet-- religiösa aspekter-- kristendom-- historia.