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The Cultural One or the Racial Many - Religion, Culture and the Interethnic Experience (Hardcover)
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The Cultural One or the Racial Many - Religion, Culture and the Interethnic Experience (Hardcover)
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First published in 1997, this study aims, first, to enlarge upon
the understanding of race and ethnicity through a
culturalist-comparative frame of analysis, instead of the standard
quantitative and political-economy approaches. Secondly, to analyse
in systematic form the religious constitution of sociocultural
life. Ethnic and race relations are examined in reference to the
cultural system of the society, which is conceived in terms of
three interrelated aspects of the assimilative process: cultural
assimilation, concerning dominant-minority cultural relations;
psychosocial assimilation, concerning the question of identity; and
biological assimilation, concerning intermarriage. The U.S. and
Brazilian cultural systems are contrasted as ideal types of
"cultural separatism" and "cultural integration", respectively.
Against current thinking, it is argued that the former type
crystallizes interethnic conflict and inequality, while the latter
is a prerequisite for the full social inclusion of society's
members. Finally, the dominant religion and religious culture of
each society are addressed as the critical structuring force of
social and intergroup relations.
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