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The forging of races : race and scripture in the Protestant Atlantic world, 1600-2000 / Colin Kidd.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 309 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780511247033
  • 0511247036
  • 0511246269
  • 9780511246265
  • 9780521797290
  • 0521797292
  • 9780521793247
  • 0521793246
  • 9780511244353
  • 0511244355
  • 9780511245107
  • 0511245106
  • 9780511817854
  • 0511817851
  • 9781107158740
  • 1107158745
  • 1280702885
  • 9781280702884
  • 0511318650
  • 9780511318658
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Forging of races.DDC classification:
  • 270.8089 22
LOC classification:
  • BT734 .K53 2006eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • BL 5870
  • MS 3530
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)171846

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-304) and index.

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.

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.

Print version record.

English.