ISBN:
9781479805006
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (391 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Early American Places Book
Series Statement:
Early American Places
Parallel Title:
Print version Faithful Bodies : Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic
DDC:
285.9097309032
Keywords:
Puritans ; America ; History ; 17th century
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Protestantism ; Social aspects ; America ; History ; 17th century
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Ethnicity ; America ; Religious aspects ; History ; 17th century
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Massachusetts ; Race relations ; Religious aspects ; History ; 17th century
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Rhode Island ; Race relations ; Religious aspects ; History ; 17th century
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Bermuda Islands ; Race relations ; Religious aspects ; History ; 17th century
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Great Britain ; Colonies ; America ; History ; 17th century
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Massachusetts ; History ; Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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Rhode Island ; History ; Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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Bermuda Islands ; History ; 17th century
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Electronic books
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Abstract:
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"" a
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Defining; 1 "One Indian and a Negroe, the first thes Ilands ever had"; 2 "Joyne interchangeably in a laborious bodily service"; 3 "Ye are of one Body and members one of another"; Part II: Performing; 4 "Extravasat Blood"; 5 "Makinge a tumult in the congregation"; 6 "Those bloody people who did use most horrible crueltie"; 7 "To bee among the praying indians"; 8 "In consideration for his raising her in the Christian faith"; Part III: Disciplining; 9 "Abominable mixture and spurious issue"
Description / Table of Contents:
10 "Sensured to be whipped uppon a Lecture daie"11 "If any white woman shall have a child by any Negroe or other slave"; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; About the Author
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