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Dennis Austin Britton - Becoming Christian: Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance - 9780823257140 - V9780823257140
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Becoming Christian: Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance

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Description for Becoming Christian: Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance Hardback. Argues that early modern English engagements with romance's infidel conversion motif - in which Jews and Muslims convert to Christianity - register theological formations of race in post-Reformation England. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBD; HRA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823257140
SKU
V9780823257140
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Dennis Austin Britton
Dennis Austin Britton is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. His areas of research include early modern English literature, Reformation theology, and race and ethnic studies. In 2012, he received a year-long National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Reviews for Becoming Christian: Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance
"Above and beyond its substantial contribution to early modern literary studies, Becoming Christian gives the effort of conversion and the work of baptism new meaning and momentum. As such, this book is not only about romance: it also participates in romance, a literary form that draws its extraordinary resilience from its capacity to serve as a tool for living." -Julia ... Read more

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