Faith and Race in American Political Life

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Robin Dale Jacobson, Nancy D. Wadsworth
University of Virginia Press, 2012 - Political Science - 320 pages

Drawing on scholarship from an array of disciplines, this volume provides a deep and timely look at the intertwining of race and religion in American politics. The contributors apply the methods of intersectionality, but where this approach has typically considered race, class, and gender, the essays collected here focus on religion, too, to offer a theoretically robust conceptualization of how these elements intersect--and how they are actively impacting the political process.

Contributors

Antony W. Alumkal, Iliff School of Theology * Carlos Figueroa, University of Texas at Brownsville * Robert D. Francis, Lutheran Services in America * Susan M. Gordon, independent scholar * Edwin I. Hernández, DeVos Family Foundations * Robin Dale Jacobson, University of Puget Sound * Robert P. Jones, Public Religion Research Institute * Jonathan I. Leib, Old Dominion University * Jessica Hamar Martínez, University of Arizona * Eric Michael Mazur, Virginia Wesleyan College * Sangay Mishra, University of Southern California * Catherine Paden, Simmons College * Milagros Peña, University of Florida * Tobin Miller Shearer, University of Montana * Nancy D. Wadsworth, University of Denver * Gerald R. Webster, University of Wyoming

 

Contents

Intersecting Race and Religion
1946
Foundations
1965
Quakerism and Racialism in Early TwentiethCentury U S Politics
2004
Race National Identity and the Changing Circumstances of Jewish Immigrants
1957
What Would Robert E Lee Do? Race Religion and the Debate over the Confederate
1982
How Attending to Race Challenges
2005
Exploring National and Local
The Christian Right and Immigration
Political Advocacy through Religious Organization? The Evolving Role of
The Black Manifesto in the Mennonite Church 1969
South Asians in the Post911 United States
The Possibilities and Limits of Evangelical Racial
Liberalism and Its Limits
Notes on Contributors
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