Almighty God Created the Races

Almighty God Created the Races
Author: Fay Botham
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2009-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0807899224

In this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage and its legal regulation in the United States, Fay Botham argues that religion--specifically, Protestant and Catholic beliefs about marriage and race--had a significant effect on legal decisions concerning miscegenation and marriage in the century following the Civil War. She contends that the white southern Protestant notion that God "dispersed" the races and the American Catholic emphasis on human unity and common origins point to ways that religion influenced the course of litigation and illuminate the religious bases for Christian racist and antiracist movements.

The Forging of Races

The Forging of Races
Author: Colin Kidd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2006-09-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139457535

This book revolutionises our understanding of race. Building upon the insight that races are products of culture rather than biology, Colin Kidd demonstrates that the Bible - the key text in Western culture - has left a vivid imprint on modern racial theories and prejudices. Fixing his attention on the changing relationship between race and theology in the Protestant Atlantic world between 1600 and 2000 Kidd shows that, while the Bible itself is colour-blind, its interpreters have imported racial significance into the scriptures. Kidd's study probes the theological anxieties which lurked behind the confident facade of of white racial supremacy in the age of empire and race slavery, as well as the ways in which racialist ideas left their mark upon new forms of religiosity. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the histories of race or religion.

Alphabetical Finding List

Alphabetical Finding List
Author: Princeton University. Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 740
Release: 1921
Genre: Library catalogs
ISBN:

Washington University Studies

Washington University Studies
Author: Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 496
Release: 1927
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Noah's Curse

Noah's Curse
Author: Stephen R. Haynes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2002-03-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199881693

"A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." So reads Noah's curse on his son Ham, and all his descendants, in Genesis 9:25. Over centuries of interpretation, Ham came to be identified as the ancestor of black Africans, and Noah's curse to be seen as biblical justification for American slavery and segregation. Examining the history of the American interpretation of Noah's curse, this book begins with an overview of the prior history of the reception of this scripture and then turns to the distinctive and creative ways in which the curse was appropriated by American pro-slavery and pro-segregation interpreters.

Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: 1700-Present

Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: 1700-Present
Author: Scott Mandelbrote
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2009-01-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9047425243

The four companion volumes of Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions contribute to a contextual evaluation of the mutual influences between scriptural exegesis and hermeneutics on the one hand and practices or techniques of interpretation in natural philosophy and the natural sciences on the other. We seek to raise the low profile this theme has had both in the history of science and in the history of biblical interpretation. Furthermore, questions about the interpretation of scripture continue to be provoked by current theological reflection on scientific theories. We also seek to provide a historical context for renewed reflection on the role of the hermeneutics of scripture in the development of theological doctrines that interact with the natural sciences. Contributors are J. Matthew Ashley, Robert E. Brown, Elizabeth Chmielewski, Edward B. Davis, Henri Wijnandus de Knijff, Marwa Elshakry, Richard England, Menachem Fisch, George Harinck, Bernhard Kleeberg, Scott Mandelbrote, G. Blair Nelson, Alexei V. Nesteruk, Jitse M. van der Meer, Rob P. W. Visser, and William Yarchin.