Becoming Christian : Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance / Dennis Austin Britton.
Britton, Dennis Austin, author.
2014
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Title Becoming Christian : Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance / Dennis Austin Britton.
Author Britton, Dennis Austin, author.
ISBN 9780823257171
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823257171
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]
Copyright ©2014
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (272 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823257171 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 820.9/382
Summary 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.
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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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