Religion and the creation of race and ethnicity: an introduction

Introduction / Craig R. Prentiss

1. "A Servant of Servants Shall He Be": The Construction of Race in American Religious Mythologies / Paul Harvey

2. Myth and African American Self-Identity / Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.

3. Almost White: The Ambivalent Promise of Christian Missions among the Cherokees / Joel Martin

4. Indigenous Identity and Story: The Telling of Our Part in the Sacred Homeland / Nimachia Hernandez

5. Jew and Judaist, Ethnic and Religious: How They Mix in America / Jacob Neusner

6. Blackness in the Nation of Islam / Aminah Beverly McCloud

7. Theologizing Race: The Construction of "Christian Identity" / Douglas E. Cowan

8. "Loathsome unto Thy People": The Latter-day Saints and Racial Categorization / Craig R. Prentiss

9. Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Heart of Mexican Identity / Roberto S. Goizueta

10. Myths, Shinto, and Matsuri in the Shaping of Japanese Cultural Identity / John K. Nelson

11. Islam, Arabs, and Ethnicity / Azzam Tamimi

12. Cosmic Men and Fluid Exchanges: Myths of Arya, Varna, and Jati in the Hindu Tradition / Laurie L. Patton

13. Religious Myth and the Construction of Shona Identity / Chirevo V. Kwenda

14. Sacral Ruins in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Mapping Ethnoreligious Nationalism / Michael A. Sells.