Faithful Bodies: Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic

by Heather Miyano Kopelson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147986028X
• ISBN13: 9781479860289
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"