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As these contributions clearly show, race, religion, and region are as. .Fay Botham, Sara M. Patterson.

As these contributions clearly show, race, religion, and region are as critical as gender, sexuality, and class in understanding the melting pot that is the West. By depicting the West as a unique site for understanding race and religion, they open a new window on how we view all of America.

The first three chapters explore religion and community formation in early twentieth-century Los Angeles. William Deverell and Mark Wild examine Social Gospel minister G. Bromley Oxnam's Church of AE Nations in Los Angeles, which served a diverse working-class population but also came under fire from conservative defenders of Americanism in the 1920's.

Religion, Region : Landscapes of Encounter in the American West.

Race, Religion, Region : Landscapes of Encounter in the American West. In this collection, eleven contributors explore the intersections of race, religion, and region to show how they transformed the West.

This book moves beyond familiar stereotypes to achieve a more nuanced understanding of race while also showing how ethnicity formed in conjunction with religious and regional . Patterson, Sara . Botham, Fay. ISBN-13.

This book moves beyond familiar stereotypes to achieve a more nuanced understanding of race while also showing how ethnicity formed in conjunction with religious and regional identity. The chapters demonstrate how religion shaped cultural encounters, contributed to the construction of racial identities, and served as a motivating factor in the lives of historical actors. The opening chapters document how religion fostered community in Los Angeles in the first half of the twentieth century.

Race, Religion, Region: Landscapes of Encounter in the American West Fay Botham,Sara M. Patterson Snippet . He is the author of Brigham Young and the Expanding American Frontier and other books

Race, Religion, Region: Landscapes of Encounter in the American West Fay Botham,Sara M. Patterson Snippet view - 2006. About the author (2004). Newell G. Bringhurst teaches history and political science at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California. He is the author of Brigham Young and the Expanding American Frontier and other books. Darron T. Smith is an African American convert to the LDS church. He is the author of What Matters Most: A Story of Human Struggle and Potential and is currently a lecturer at Utah Valley State College. Bibliographic information.

Religion in the Nineteenth-Century American West. Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Engaging Habits and Besotted Idolatry: Viewing Chinese Religions in the American West, in Fay Botham and Sara M. Patterson, ed. Race, Religion, Region: Landscapes of Encounter in the American West (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006), 60-88.

When scholars approach religion and race, they tend to focus on such issues as how African Americans have . Race, Religion, Region: Landscapes of Encounter in the American West Fay Botham,Sara M. Patterson Metin Parçacığı görünümü - 2006.

When scholars approach religion and race, they tend to focus on such issues as how African Americans have expressed Christianity, or how Japanese or Mexicans have lived religiously. Tüm Kitap Arama sonuçları Yazar hakkında (2003).

Race, Religion, Region: Landscapes of Encounter in the American West Sep 15, 2006. by Fay Botham, Sara M.

Fay Botham is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New .

Fay Botham is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, where she joined the faculty in the fall of 2005. Before coming to New York, she taught in the American Cultures Program at Loyola-Marymount University, Los Angeles. Fay is also working on a book,Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law, 1865-1967 which is to be published by the University of North Carolina Press.