Faithful bodies : performing religion and race in the Puritan Atlantic

著者

• Kopelson, Heather Miyano

書誌事項

Faithful bodies : performing religion and race in the Puritan Atlantic

Heather Miyano Kopelson

（Early American places）

New York University Press, c2014

• : cloth

注記

Bibliography: p. [315]-358

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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" and "Protestant." Faithful Bodies focuses on three communities of Protestant dissent in the Atlantic World: Bermuda, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. In this "puritan Atlantic," religion determined insider and outsider status: at times Africans and Natives could belong as long as they embraced the Protestant faith, while Irish Catholics and English Quakers remained suspect. Colonists' interactions with indigenous peoples of the Americas and with West Central Africans shaped their understandings of human difference and its acceptable boundaries. Prayer, religious instruction, sexual behavior, and other public and private acts became markers of whether or not blacks and Indians were sinning Christians or godless heathens. As slavery became law, transgressing people of color counted less and less as sinners in English puritans' eyes, even as some of them made Christianity an integral part of their communities. As Kopelson shows, this transformation proceeded unevenly but inexorably during the long seventeenth century.

目次

Part I "One Indian and a Negroe, the first thes Ilands ever had" 25 2 "Joyne interchangeably in a laborious bodily service" 51 3 "Ye are of one Body and members one of another" 74 Part II Performing 101 4 "Extravasat Blood" 107 5 "Makinge a tumult in the congregation" 126 6 "Those bloody people who did use most horrible crueltie" 150 7 "To bee among the praying indians" 171 8 "In consideration for his raising her in the Christian faith" 192

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB20744227
• ISBN:
  • 9781479805006
• LCCN: 2013049744
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 371 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : F75.A1
  • DC23 : 305.800974
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Massachusetts -- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Rhode Island -- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Bermuda Islands -- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Puritans -- America -- History -- 17th century.
  • LCSH : Protestantism -- Social aspects -- America -- History -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Ethnicity -- America -- Religious aspects -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  • LCSH : Rhode Island -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  • LCSH : Bermuda Islands -- History -- 17th century
• 親書誌ID:
  • BB0661269X