Craig Prentiss, the author of Religion and The Creation of Race and Ethnicity: An Introduction begins his piece with a strong opener named “Introduction”. Pulling the reader in while being straightforward and to the point about how and what role religion has played in the creation of ethnicities and race. Prentiss leads the reading on with questions and explanation just to help the reader gain an understand of how religion has played a big part in the social structure of society. Prentiss defines the study of religion as “The study of human expression that is shaped by religious traditions.” In other words interpreting that tradition has built who some people are. This creates an identity that some can appeal to which leads to his next
