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Faithful Bodies: Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic

Faithful Bodies: Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic

Hardcover

Series: Early American Places, Book 13

Christian LivingColonial Period (1600-1775)General Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1479805009
ISBN13: 9781479805006
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Jul 18 2014
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

In the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism provided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries between insider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather Miyano
Kopelson peels back the layers of conflicting definitions of bodies and competing practices of faith in the puritan Atlantic, demonstrating how the categories of white, black, and Indian developed alongside religious boundaries between Christian and heathen and between Catholic and Protestant.

Faithful Bodies focuses on three communities of Protestant dissent in the Atlantic World: Bermuda,

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