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"In this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage and its legal regulation in the United States, Fay Botham argues that religion--specifically, Protestant and Catholic beliefs about marriage and race--had a significant effect on legal decisions concerning miscegenation and marriage in the century following the Civil War. She contends that the white southern Protestant notion that God """"dispersed"""" the races and the American Catholic emphasis on human unity and common origins point to ways that religion influenced the course of litigation and illuminate the religious bases for Christian racist and antiracist movements."

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Botham's attention to Protestant-Catholic difference makes a bold, original, <br>and salient contribution to our understanding of antimiscegenation law. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, Almighty God Created the Races will be of interest to scholars in a variety of fields. --Tracy Fessenden, author of Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature

The process by which people interpret biblical stories and apply them to contemporary issues--and the limits of those interpretations--is illustrated beautifully. . . . An important contribution to the scholarship on race and religion in America and on our cultural understandings of the production of knowledge. . . . [Will be] extraordinarily useful in the classroom.--Journal of Religion Offers an important new perspective. . . . A well-researched intellectual history of Catholic and Protestant views of race and interracial marriage and an intriguing analysis of how these views influenced interracial marriage in the United States. Scholars of civil rights, religion, and law in the United States will find Fay Botham's newest work both worthwhile and enjoyable.--Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Botham compellingly makes her case for the importance of religious underpinnings for segregation in the South.--Journal of Church History A unique vision of marriage across the color line that breaks new ground and broadens our understanding of the legal prohibition of interracial marriage. . . . A fresh and welcome approach.--Journal of American History A must read for scholars interested in law and marriage. . . . This book's creativity makes it a necessity for graduates and laypeople interested in interracial sex and miscegenation laws in the US. . . . Highly recommended.--Choice A compelling . . . addition to an underdeveloped field of history. . . . Worthy of reading for those interested in the American history of interracial relationships.--Arkansas Review [An] interesting text--one worthy of reading for those interested in the American history of interracial relationships--Arkansas Review

Botham's attention to Protestant-Catholic difference makes a bold, original, and salient contribution to our understanding of antimiscegenation law. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, Almighty God Created the Races will be of interest to scholars in a variety of fields. --Tracy Fessenden, author of Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature

A must read for scholars interested in law and marriage. . . . This book's creativity makes it a necessity for graduates and laypeople interested in interracial sex and miscegenation laws in the US. . . . Highly recommended. -- Choice

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Fay Botham is visiting assistant professor of religious studies and American studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA. She is coeditor of Race, Religion, Region: Landscapes of Encounter in the American West.

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