The Baptism of Early Virginia : How Christianity Created Race /

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In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices of English Virginians. She finds the seventeenth century a critical time in the development and articulation of racial ideologies - ultimately in the idea of "hered...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goetz, Rebecca Anne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Racism.
Race relations.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Racisme.
Racisme > Virginie.
Racism > Virginia.
Virginia.
Virginie > Relations raciales.
Virginie > Histoire religieuse.
Virginia > Race relations.
Virginia > Church history.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Christians and Heathens in Virginia
  • English Christians among the Blackest Nations
  • The Rise and the Fall of the Anglo-Indian Christian Commonwealth
  • Faith in the Blood
  • Baptism and the Birth of Race
  • Becoming Christian, Becoming White
  • The Children of Israel
  • Epilogue: Christian Abolitionism and Proslavery Christianity.

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