Race Vs Religion
Over history various methods have been used to justify discrimination. Although religion and race were both successful in instituting social hierarchies, the implications of their characterizations were quite different. Though similar in their origins, the transition from religion to race as the basis for discrimination depicts a transition from a focus on changeable characteristics to impermeable differences to support the institution of segregated communities. While religious stratification was often mutable, hierarchies based on race were of a more permanent nature, as illustrated by the use of both methods of discrimination on Jewish and African nations. Both religious and racial hierarchies were instituted to maintain social stratification because of the dominant intellectual beliefs of the time. This is extremely evident in the way Jews and Blacks continued to be oppressed with only the thought behind their oppression being changed. Doctrine or ideology was used to justify or rationalize a range of policies, depending on the circumstances and aims of the racializing group (Fredrickson, 11). Consequently the strength of the Church, and the birth of the Enlightenment, marked the use of religion and race, respectively, to
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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