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Christianity, interracial marriage, & American law

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An edition of Almighty God created the races (2009)

Almighty God created the races

Christianity, interracial marriage, & American law

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Botham argues that divergent Catholic and Protestant theologies of marriage and race, reinforced by regional differences between the West and the South, shaped the two pivotal cases that frame this volume, the 1948 California Supreme Court case of Perez v. Lippold (which successfully challenged California's antimiscegenation statutes on the grounds of religious freedom) and the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia (which declared legal bans on interracial marriage unconstitutional). Botham contends that the white southern Protestant notion that God "dispersed" the races, as opposed to the American Catholic emphasis on human unity and common origins, points to ways that religion influenced the course of litigation and illuminates the religious bases for Christian racist and antiracist movements. --from publisher description.

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University of North Carolina Press
Language
English
Pages
271

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Interracial marriage, Law and legislation, Religion and law, History, Blandäktenskap, Historia, Religious aspects, Marriage, religious aspects, christianity

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Table of Contents

Catholic California : the historic junction of religion, region, and law in Perez v. Lippold (1948)
The historical origins of American laws on interracial sex and marriage : the role of religion and region
Church authority or states' rights? : Protestant and Catholic theologies of marriage
Noah's sons and common origins in Adam and Eve : Protestant and Catholic theologies of race
States' rights and the southern white Protestant theology of race in antimiscegenation law and cases, 1867-1964
The southern lingua franca of race : Judge Leon M. Bazile and white Catholics
Epilogue : a postmodernist's reflections on history and knowledge.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-261) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
346.7301/6
Library of Congress
KF517 .B68 2009, KF511.B68 2009, KF511 .B68 2009

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xiii, 271 p. ;
Number of pages
271

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OL24448143M
ISBN 13
9780807833186
LCCN
2009024330
OCLC/WorldCat
317929505

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OL15483597W

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