ISBN:
9781479805006
,
9781479814268 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
391 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781479814268
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
Series Statement:
Early American Places Book
DDC:
285.9097309032
Keywords:
Geschichte 1600-1750
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Puritanismus
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Religiöse Identität
;
Nordamerika
;
Atlantikküste
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Online-Publikation
;
Electronic books
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...
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Online-Ausg.:
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