@article{1477636,
      recid = {1477636},
      author = {Britton, Dennis Austin, },
      title = {Becoming Christian : Race, Reformation, and Early Modern  English Romance /},
      pages = {1 online resource (272 p.)},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1477636},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823257171},
}