Description
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 271 pages) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-261) and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9780807899229
0807899224
9781469604602
1469604604 |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed September 12, 2016). |
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