Faithful Bodies : Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic /
Kopelson, Heather Miyano
Faithful Bodies : Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic / Heather Miyano Kopelson. - 1 online resource - Early American Places ; 13 .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Inthe seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practicesplayed a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantismprovided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries betweeninsider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather MiyanoKopelson peels back the layers ofconflicting definitions of bodies and competing practices of faith in thepuritan 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 threecommunities of Protestant dissent in the Atlantic World: Bermuda,Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. In this "puritan Atlantic," religiondetermined insider and outsider status: at times Africans and Natives couldbelong as long as they embraced the Protestant faith, while Irish Catholics andEnglish Quakers remained suspect. Colonists'interactions with indigenous peoples of the Americas and with West CentralAfricans shaped their understandings of human difference and its acceptableboundaries. Prayer, religious instruction, sexual behavior, andother public and private acts became markers of whether or not blacks andIndians were sinning Christians or godless heathens. As slavery becamelaw, transgressing people of color counted less and less as sinners in Englishpuritans' eyes, even as some of them made Christianity an integral part oftheir communities. As Kopelson shows, this transformation proceededunevenly but inexorably during the long seventeenth century.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781479805006 9781479814268
10.18574/nyu/9781479805006.001.0001 doi
Ethnicity--Religious aspects--History--America--17th century.
Protestantism--Social aspects--History.--America
Puritans--History--America--17th century.
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).
F75.A1 / K67 2016
305.800974
Faithful Bodies : Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic / Heather Miyano Kopelson. - 1 online resource - Early American Places ; 13 .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Inthe seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practicesplayed a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantismprovided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries betweeninsider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather MiyanoKopelson peels back the layers ofconflicting definitions of bodies and competing practices of faith in thepuritan 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 threecommunities of Protestant dissent in the Atlantic World: Bermuda,Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. In this "puritan Atlantic," religiondetermined insider and outsider status: at times Africans and Natives couldbelong as long as they embraced the Protestant faith, while Irish Catholics andEnglish Quakers remained suspect. Colonists'interactions with indigenous peoples of the Americas and with West CentralAfricans shaped their understandings of human difference and its acceptableboundaries. Prayer, religious instruction, sexual behavior, andother public and private acts became markers of whether or not blacks andIndians were sinning Christians or godless heathens. As slavery becamelaw, transgressing people of color counted less and less as sinners in Englishpuritans' eyes, even as some of them made Christianity an integral part oftheir communities. As Kopelson shows, this transformation proceededunevenly but inexorably during the long seventeenth century.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781479805006 9781479814268
10.18574/nyu/9781479805006.001.0001 doi
Ethnicity--Religious aspects--History--America--17th century.
Protestantism--Social aspects--History.--America
Puritans--History--America--17th century.
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).
F75.A1 / K67 2016
305.800974