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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781479814268

Series Statement: Early American Places ; 13

Content: Inthe seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practicesplayed a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantismprovided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries betweeninsider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather MiyanoKopelson peels back the layers ofconflicting definitions of bodies and competing practices of faith in thepuritan 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 threecommunities of Protestant dissent in the Atlantic World: Bermuda,Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. In this “puritan Atlantic,” religiondetermined insider and outsider status: at times Africans and Natives couldbelong as long as they embraced the Protestant faith, while Irish Catholics andEnglish Quakers remained suspect. Colonists’interactions with indigenous peoples of the Americas and with West CentralAfricans shaped their understandings of human difference and its acceptableboundaries. Prayer, religious instruction, sexual behavior, andother public and private acts became markers of whether or not blacks andIndians were sinning Christians or godless heathens. As slavery becamelaw, transgressing people of color counted less and less as sinners in Englishpuritans’ eyes, even as some of them made Christianity an integral part oftheir communities. As Kopelson shows, this transformation proceededunevenly but inexorably during the long seventeenth century.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , 1. “One Indian and a negroe, the first thes ilands ever had” -- , 2. “Joyne interchangeably in a laborious bodily service” -- , 3. “Ye are of one body and members one of another” -- , 4. “Extravasat blood” -- , 5. “Makinge a tumult in the congregation” -- , 6. “Those bloody people who did use most horrible crueltie” -- , 7. “To bee among the praying Indians” -- , 8. “In consideration for his raising her in the christian faith” -- , 9. “Abominable mixture and spurious issue” -- , 10. “Sensured to be whipped uppon a lecture daie” -- , 11. “If any white woman shall have a child by any negroe or other slave” -- , Epilogue -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index -- , About the author , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.18574/9781479814268

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Format: 1 online resource : , illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).

ISBN: 9781479814268 (ebook) :

Series Statement: Early American places

Content: In the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beli and practices played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism provided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries between insid and outsider. In this 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.'

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9781479805006

Language: English

URL: New York scholarship online

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Format: 1 online resource (391 p.)

ISBN: 1-4798-1426-1

Series Statement: Early American Places ; 13

Content: 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.

Note: "Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso. , Front matter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , 1. “One Indian and a negroe, the first thes ilands ever had” -- , 2. “Joyne interchangeably in a laborious bodily service” -- , 3. “Ye are of one body and members one of another” -- , 4. “Extravasat blood” -- , 5. “Makinge a tumult in the congregation” -- , 6. “Those bloody people who did use most horrible crueltie” -- , 7. “To bee among the praying Indians” -- , 8. “In consideration for his raising her in the christian faith” -- , 9. “Abominable mixture and spurious issue” -- , 10. “Sensured to be whipped uppon a lecture daie” -- , 11. “If any white woman shall have a child by any negroe or other slave” -- , Epilogue -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index -- , About the author , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-4798-6028-X

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-4798-0500-9

Language: English

DOI: 10.18574/9781479814268

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Format: 1 online resource (391 pages) : , illustrations, maps, photographs.

ISBN: 9781479814268 (e-book)

Series Statement: Early American Places

Additional Edition: Print vrsion: Kopelson, Heather Miyano. Faithful bodies : performing religion and race in the Puritan Atlantic. New York ; London, England : New York University Press, c2014 ISBN 9781479805006

Language: English

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