Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity: An Introduction Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	"A Servant of Servants Shall He Be": The Construction of Race in American Religious Mythologies	13
2	Myth and African American Self-Identity	28
3	Almost White: The Ambivalent Promise of Christian Missions among the Cherokees	43
4	Indigenous Identity and Story: The Telling of Our Part in the Sacred Homeland	61
5	Jew and Judaist, Ethnic and Religious: How They Mix in America	85
6	Blackness in the Nation of Islam	101
7	Theologizing Race: The Construction of "Christian Identity"	112
8	"Loathsome unto Thy People": The Latter-day Saints and Racial Categorization	124
9	Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Heart of Mexican Identity	140
10	Myths, Shinto, and Matsuri in the Shaping of Japanese Cultural Identity	152
11	Islam, Arabs, and Ethnicity	167
12	Cosmic Men and Fluid Exchanges: Myths of Arya, Varna, and Jati in the Hindu Tradition	181
13	Religious Myth and the Construction of Shona Identity	197
14	Sacral Ruins in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Mapping Ethnoreligious Nationalism	211
	About the Contributors	235
	Index	239