001477636 000__ 05607nam\a22010575i\4500 001477636 001__ 1477636 001477636 003__ DE-B1597 001477636 005__ 20231026034820.0 001477636 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477636 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477636 008__ 230103t20142014nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477636 020__ $$a9780823257171 001477636 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823257171$$2doi 001477636 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)555140 001477636 035__ $$a(OCoLC)878144555 001477636 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477636 0410_ $$aeng 001477636 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477636 072_7 $$aLIT004120$$2bisacsh 001477636 08204 $$a820.9/382$$223 001477636 1001_ $$aBritton, Dennis Austin, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477636 24510 $$aBecoming Christian :$$bRace, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance /$$cDennis Austin Britton. 001477636 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2014] 001477636 264_4 $$c©2014 001477636 300__ $$a1 online resource (272 p.) 001477636 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477636 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477636 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477636 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477636 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tFigures -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction. Not Turning the Ethiope White -- $$t1. "The Baptiz'd Race" -- $$t2. Ovidian Baptism in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene -- $$t3. Infidel Texts and Errant Sexuality -- $$t4. Transformative and Restorative Romance -- $$t5. Reproducing Christians -- $$tAfterword. A Political Afterlife of a Theology of Race and Conversion -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex 001477636 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477636 520__ $$aBecoming 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. 001477636 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477636 546__ $$aIn English. 001477636 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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