Kathryn Gin Lum and Paul Harvey publish the Oxford Handbook of Religion and Race in American History
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Race in American History (2018), edited by Kathryn Gin Lum and Paul Harvey, brings together a number of established scholars, as well as younger scholars on the rise, to provide a scholarly overview for those interested in the role of religion and race in American history.
Thirty-four scholars from the fields of History, Religious Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, and more investigate the complex interdependencies of religion and race from pre-Columbian origins to the present. The volume addresses the religious experiences, social realities, theologies, and sociologies of racialized groups in American religious history, as well as the ways that religious myths, institutions, and practices contributed to their racialization.
Part One begins with a broad introductory survey outlining some of the major terms and explaining the intersections of race and religion in various traditions and cultures across time. Part Two provides chronologically arranged accounts of specific historical periods that follow a narrative of religion and race through four-plus centuries. Taken together, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Race in American History provides a reliable scholarly text and resource to summarize and guide work in this subject, and to help make sense of contemporary issues and dilemmas. It is the first major published collection of essays on the subject since the elections of Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
