The Forging of Races

Informationen zum Autor Colin Kidd is Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He has previously written Subverting Scotland's Past (1993) and British Identities before Nationalism (1999). Klappentext Study of the changing relationship between race and theology in the Protestant Atlantic world since 1600. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Prologue: race in the eye of the beholder; 2. Introduction: race as scripture problem; 3. Race and religious orthodoxy in the early modern era; 4. Race, the Enlightenment and the authority of scripture; 5. Monogenesis, slavery and the nineteenth-century crisis of faith; 6. The Aryan moment: racializing religion in the nineteenth century; 7. Forms of racialized religion; 8. Black counter-theologies; 9. Conclusion.

Klappentext
Study of the changing relationship between race and theology in the Protestant Atlantic world since 1600.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
1. Prologue: race in the eye of the beholder; 2. Introduction: race as scripture problem; 3. Race and religious orthodoxy in the early modern era; 4. Race, the Enlightenment and the authority of scripture; 5. Monogenesis, slavery and the nineteenth-century crisis of faith; 6. The Aryan moment: racializing religion in the nineteenth century; 7. Forms of racialized religion; 8. Black counter-theologies; 9. Conclusion.

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