The Resource Faithful bodies : performing religion and race in the Puritan Atlantic, Heather Miyano Kopelson
Faithful bodies : performing religion and race in the Puritan Atlantic, Heather Miyano Kopelson
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- Summary
- "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. Colonistsʼ 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 puritansʼ 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." --
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 371 pages
- Note
- First published in paperback in 2016
- Contents
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- Part I. Defining. "One Indian and a Negroe, the first thes Ilands ever had"
- "Joyne interchangeably in a laborious bodily service"
- "Ye are of one body and members one of another"
- Part II. Performing. "Extravasat blood"
- "Makinge a tumult in the congregation"
- "Those bloody people who did use most horrible crueltie"
- "To bee among the praying Indians"
- "In consideration for his raising her in the Christian faith"
- Part III. Disciplining. "Abominable mixture and spurious issue"
- "Sensured to be whipped uppon a Lecture daie"
- "If any white woman shall have a child by any Negroe or other slave"
- Isbn
- 9781479860289
- Label
- Faithful bodies : performing religion and race in the Puritan Atlantic
- Title
- Faithful bodies
- Title remainder
- performing religion and race in the Puritan Atlantic
- Statement of responsibility
- Heather Miyano Kopelson
- Subject
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- Ethnicity -- America -- Religious aspects | History -- 17th century
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century
- Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Massachusetts -- Race relations | Religious aspects | History -- 17th century
- Protestantism -- Social aspects -- America -- History
- Puritans -- America -- History -- 17th century
- Rhode Island -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Rhode Island -- Race relations | Religious aspects | History -- 17th century
- Bermuda Islands -- History -- 17th century
- Bermuda Islands -- Race relations | Religious aspects | History -- 17th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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. Colonistsʼ 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 puritansʼ 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." --
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kopelson, Heather Miyano
- Dewey number
- 305.800974
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- F75.A1
- LC item number
- K67 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Early American places
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Massachusetts
- Rhode Island
- Bermuda Islands
- Great Britain
- Puritans
- Protestantism
- Ethnicity
- Massachusetts
- Rhode Island
- Bermuda Islands
- Label
- Faithful bodies : performing religion and race in the Puritan Atlantic, Heather Miyano Kopelson
- Note
- First published in paperback in 2016
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-358) and index
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- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part I. Defining. "One Indian and a Negroe, the first thes Ilands ever had" -- "Joyne interchangeably in a laborious bodily service" -- "Ye are of one body and members one of another" -- Part II. Performing. "Extravasat blood" -- "Makinge a tumult in the congregation" -- "Those bloody people who did use most horrible crueltie" -- "To bee among the praying Indians" -- "In consideration for his raising her in the Christian faith" -- Part III. Disciplining. "Abominable mixture and spurious issue" -- "Sensured to be whipped uppon a Lecture daie" -- "If any white woman shall have a child by any Negroe or other slave"
- Control code
- ocn926743516
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 371 pages
- Isbn
- 9781479860289
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)926743516
- Label
- Faithful bodies : performing religion and race in the Puritan Atlantic, Heather Miyano Kopelson
- Note
- First published in paperback in 2016
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-358) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part I. Defining. "One Indian and a Negroe, the first thes Ilands ever had" -- "Joyne interchangeably in a laborious bodily service" -- "Ye are of one body and members one of another" -- Part II. Performing. "Extravasat blood" -- "Makinge a tumult in the congregation" -- "Those bloody people who did use most horrible crueltie" -- "To bee among the praying Indians" -- "In consideration for his raising her in the Christian faith" -- Part III. Disciplining. "Abominable mixture and spurious issue" -- "Sensured to be whipped uppon a Lecture daie" -- "If any white woman shall have a child by any Negroe or other slave"
- Control code
- ocn926743516
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 371 pages
- Isbn
- 9781479860289
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)926743516
Subject
- Ethnicity -- America -- Religious aspects | History -- 17th century
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century
- Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Massachusetts -- Race relations | Religious aspects | History -- 17th century
- Protestantism -- Social aspects -- America -- History
- Puritans -- America -- History -- 17th century
- Rhode Island -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Rhode Island -- Race relations | Religious aspects | History -- 17th century
- Bermuda Islands -- History -- 17th century
- Bermuda Islands -- Race relations | Religious aspects | History -- 17th century
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