1st Edition
The Cultural One or the Racial Many Religion, Culture and the Interethnic Experience
By Evandro Camara
Copyright 1997
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1997, this study aims, first, to enlarge upon the understanding of race and ethnicity through a culturalist-comparative frame of analysis, instead of the standard quantitative and political-economy approaches. Secondly, to analyse in systematic form the religious constitution of sociocultural life.
Ethnic and race relations are examined in reference to the cultural system of... Read more
1. Cultural Explanation and the Question of Intergroup Life. 2. Culture and Ethnicity: A Crossnational Contrast. 3. The Meeting of Dominant and Minority Cultures: Integration vs. Separatism. 4. Miscegenation and Intermarriage in the Formation of Society. 5. The Psychosocial Aspect: Group Consciousness and Cultural Identity. 6. Revisiting Secularization: Religion as Implicit Normative System. 7. The Church in Brazil: Folk Catholicism and Ethnic Assimilation. 8. The Church in the United States: Calvinistic Protestantism and Ethnic Assimilation. 9. Conclusions.
Biography
Evandro Camara
’A must-read, especially for those who disagree.’ Professor Martin Riesebrodt, University of Chicago, USA
