Religion gets racialized by ascribing inherited biological traits to a faith community

Evidence

Some government officials categorized Jews as a mixed race that had interbred with Black Africans during the Diaspora. This conclusion was based on some scientists’ claims that Semites originated in Africa. Similar to the “one drop” rule for Blacks, Jewish religious identity thus was ascribed irredeemable biological traits arising from their impurity of blood. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 257

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows the precise mechanism of religious racialization: religious identity mapped onto miscegenation-based biological determinism.
• XREF: connects to: Race was co-constituted with religion in European history. — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 31; Ancestry-based purity laws displaced religious conversion as a path to inclusion; Culture served as a racializing mode that displaced politics onto religion — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 256 (+2 more)