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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
"While the story of Ham and Canaan has received attention in the past because of its profound impact on life for African Americans in the United States, The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth-Century American Christianity offers much needed complexity to traditional interpretations of the story and its ramifications. Wrestling with notions of illegitimacy and divine identity as major connotations of this story, Sylvester Johnson provides powerful insights that will challenge and inform. I highly recommend this text as an important addition to American and African American Religious Thought." - Anthony B. Pinn, Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies, Rice University
"In this creative and challenging interpretation of the uses of the myth of Ham in American religious discourse, Sylvester Johnson makes an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between religion and constructions of race. Readers will be grateful for Johnson's perceptive discussion of 19th century African Americans' complex negotiation of collective identity as simultaneously the people of God and the children of Ham and for his incisive analysis of the historical connections between narratives of American chosenness and white racial identity." - Judith Weisenfeld, Vassar College, author of African American Women and Christian Activism: New York's Black YWCA, 1905-1945
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth-Century American Christianity
Book Subtitle: Race, Heathens, and the People of God
Authors: Sylvester A. Johnson
Series Title: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-7869-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Sylvester Johnson 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6562-2Published: 03 December 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-7869-1Published: 02 December 2004
Series ISSN: 2945-6975
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6983
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 187
Topics: History of the Americas, History of Religion, Christianity