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AB  - 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.
AU  - Britton, Dennis Austin, 
DO  - 10.1515/9780823257171
DO  - doi
ID  - 1477636
JF  - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
JF  - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
KW  - Christians in literature.
KW  - Conversion in literature.
KW  - Conversion
KW  - English literature
KW  - Jews in literature.
KW  - Muslims in literature.
KW  - Race in literature.
KW  - Religion and literature
KW  - Religion and literature
KW  - Literary Studies.
KW  - Race & Ethnic Studies.
KW  - Renaissance Studies.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Baptism.
KW  - Church of England.
KW  - Edmund Spenser.
KW  - English literature.
KW  - Jews.
KW  - Muslims.
KW  - Race.
KW  - Romance.
KW  - William Shakespeare.
KW  - conversion.
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
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N2  - 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.
SN  - 9780823257171
T1  - Becoming Christian :Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance /
TI  - Becoming Christian :Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance /
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