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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780823257171
035 _a(DE-B1597)555140
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072 7 _aLIT004120
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082 0 4 _a820.9/382
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBritton, Dennis Austin
_eautore
245 1 0 _aBecoming Christian :
_bRace, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance /
_cDennis Austin Britton.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bFordham University Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource (272 p.)
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tFigures --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction. Not Turning the Ethiope White --
_t1. “The Baptiz’d Race” --
_t2. Ovidian Baptism in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene --
_t3. Infidel Texts and Errant Sexuality --
_t4. Transformative and Restorative Romance --
_t5. Reproducing Christians --
_tAfterword. A Political Afterlife of a Theology of Race and Conversion --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aBecoming Christian argues that romance narratives of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity register theological formations of race in post-Reformation England. The medieval motif of infidel conversion came under scrutiny as Protestant theology radically reconfigured how individuals acquire religious identities.Whereas Catholicism had asserted that Christian identity begins with baptism, numerous theologians in the Church of England denied the necessity of baptism and instead treated Christian identity as a racial characteristic passed from parents to their children. The church thereby developed a theology that both transformed a nation into a Christian race and created skepticism about the possibility of conversion. Race became a matter of salvation and damnation.Britton intervenes in critical debates about the intersections of race and religion, as well as in discussions of the social implications of romance. Examining English translations of Calvin, treatises on the sacraments, catechisms, and sermons alongside works by Edmund Spenser, John Harrington, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, and Phillip Massinger, Becoming Christian demonstrates how a theology of race altered a nation’s imagination and literary landscape.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aChristians in literature.
650 0 _aConversion in literature.
650 0 _aConversion
_xChristianity
_xHistory.
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_yEarly modern, 1500-1700
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aJews in literature.
650 0 _aMuslims in literature.
650 0 _aRace in literature.
650 0 _aReligion and literature
_zEngland
_xHistory
_y16th century.
650 0 _aReligion and literature
_zEngland
_xHistory
_y17th century.
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 4 _aRace & Ethnic Studies.
650 4 _aRenaissance Studies.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
_2bisacsh
653 _aBaptism.
653 _aChurch of England.
653 _aEdmund Spenser.
653 _aEnglish literature.
653 _aJews.
653 _aMuslims.
653 _aRace.
653 _aRomance.
653 _aWilliam Shakespeare.
653 _aconversion.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823257171?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823257171
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