Making Pagans: Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England

by John Kuhn

How early modern theatrical practice helped construct the category of "pagan" as a tool of European self-definition and colonial ambition

In Making Pagans, John Kuhn argues that drama played a powerful role in the articulation of religious difference in the seventeenth century. Tracing connections between the history of stagecraft and ethnological disciplines such as ethnography, antiquarianism, and early comparative religious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512825093
• ISBN13: 9781512825091
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"