RELIGION, RACE, AND ETHNICITY

General Editor: Peter J. Paris

Religion has been a dynamic force in the lives of many peoples of different races, nationalities, and ethnicities. In order to achieve an adequate understanding of a people's historical identity, it is often essential to consider religion both as a motive force and as an organizing framework in their lives. While religion, race, and ethnicity have each individually received a significant amount of scholarly attention, their combined interaction has thus far received insufficient notice.

While eclectic in terms of precise topics and approaches, this series will advance our understanding of religion as a determinative dynamic in the lives of different racial and ethnic communities. It will address such questions as how the categories of religion, race, and ethnicity have intersected historically, influenced social movements, impacted historical processes, informed the development of group identity, and acted as a hegemonic impetus for social functions. Projects in the series will have an empirical base for their analyses; some will incorporate ethical and/or religious arguments into their methodologies. Some books in the series will be historical; others will focus on contemporary issues. While the primary geographic focus of the series will be the United States, works examining other parts of the world will also be given serious consideration. Projects which are broad in scope and of interdisciplinary appeal are particularly encouraged.

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The Methodist Unification
Christianity and the Politics of Race in the Jim Crow Era
Morris L. Davis

Daddy Grace
A Celebrity Preacher and His House of Prayer
Marie W. Dallam

Deeper Shades of Purple
Womanism in Religion and Society
Edited by Stacey Floyd-Thomas

Public Religion and Urban Transformation
Faith in the City
Edited by Lowell W. Livezey

Down by the Riverside
Readings in African American Religion
Edited by Larry G. Murphy

New York Glory
Religions in the City
Edited by Tony Carnes and Anna Karpathakis

Beyond Christianity
African Americans in a New Thought Church
Darnise C. Martin

Righteous Content
Black Women’s Perspectives of Church and Faith
Daphne C. Wiggins

The History of the Riverside Church in the City of New York
Peter Paris, John W. Cook, James Hudnut-Beumler, Lawrence Mamiya, Leonora Tisdale, Judith Weisenfeld

God in Chinatown
Religion and Survival in New York's Evolving Immigrant Community
Kenneth J. Guest

Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity
An Introduction
Edited by Craig R. Prentiss

Creole Religions of the Caribbean
An Introduction from Vodou and Santería to Obeah and Espiritismo
Margarite Fernández Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert