Becoming Christian : : Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance / / Dennis Austin Britton.
Becoming Christian argues that romance narratives of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity register theological formations of race in post-Reformation England. The medieval motif of infidel conversion came under scrutiny as Protestant theology radically reconfigured how individuals acquire rel...
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Britton, Dennis Austin, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Becoming Christian : Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance / Dennis Austin Britton. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (272 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Not Turning the Ethiope White -- 1. “The Baptiz’d Race” -- 2. Ovidian Baptism in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene -- 3. Infidel Texts and Errant Sexuality -- 4. Transformative and Restorative Romance -- 5. Reproducing Christians -- Afterword. A Political Afterlife of a Theology of Race and Conversion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Becoming Christian argues that romance narratives of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity register theological formations of race in post-Reformation England. The medieval motif of infidel conversion came under scrutiny as Protestant theology radically reconfigured how individuals acquire religious identities.Whereas Catholicism had asserted that Christian identity begins with baptism, numerous theologians in the Church of England denied the necessity of baptism and instead treated Christian identity as a racial characteristic passed from parents to their children. The church thereby developed a theology that both transformed a nation into a Christian race and created skepticism about the possibility of conversion. Race became a matter of salvation and damnation.Britton intervenes in critical debates about the intersections of race and religion, as well as in discussions of the social implications of romance. Examining English translations of Calvin, treatises on the sacraments, catechisms, and sermons alongside works by Edmund Spenser, John Harrington, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, and Phillip Massinger, Becoming Christian demonstrates how a theology of race altered a nation’s imagination and literary landscape. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) Christians in literature. Conversion in literature. Conversion Christianity History. English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. Jews in literature. Muslims in literature. Race in literature. Religion and literature England History 16th century. Religion and literature England History 17th century. Literary Studies. Race & Ethnic Studies. Renaissance Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Baptism. Church of England. Edmund Spenser. English literature. Jews. Muslims. Race. Romance. William Shakespeare. conversion. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110729030 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 9783111189604 print 9780823257140 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823257171?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823257171 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823257171/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Not Turning the Ethiope White -- 1. “The Baptiz’d Race” -- 2. Ovidian Baptism in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene -- 3. Infidel Texts and Errant Sexuality -- 4. Transformative and Restorative Romance -- 5. Reproducing Christians -- Afterword. A Political Afterlife of a Theology of Race and Conversion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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