Almighty God Created the Races

Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law

Fay Botham (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2013 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-0727-6 (ISBN)

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In this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage and its legal regulation in the US, 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.

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.

Fay Botham is visiting assistant professor of religious studies and American studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA. She is coeditor of Race, Religion, Region: Landscapes of Encounter in the American West.

Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4696-0727-1 / 1469607271
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-0727-6 / 9781469607276
Zustand	Neuware