Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic
by
Heather Miyano Kopelson
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
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...