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9%OFFHeather Miyano Kopelson - Faithful Bodies - 9781479860289 - V9781479860289
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Faithful Bodies

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Description for Faithful Bodies Paperback. "Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso. Series: Early American Places. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 572.

In the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism provided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries between insider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather Miyano
Kopelson peels back the layers of conflicting definitions of bodies and competing practices of faith in the puritan Atlantic, demonstrating how the categories of “white,” “black,” and “Indian” developed alongside religious boundaries between “Christian” and “heathen” and between “Catholic” and “Protestant.”
Faithful Bodies focuses on three communities of Protestant dissent in the Atlantic World: Bermuda,
Massachusetts, and Rhode ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Series
Early American Places
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479860289
SKU
V9781479860289
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99-50

About Heather Miyano Kopelson
Heather Miyano Kopelson is Associate Professor of History and Affiliated Faculty in Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.

Reviews for Faithful Bodies
Offers a new way to understand religion, politics, and identity in the English Atlantic World. . . . This is an ambitious undertaking, and Kopelson has done it justice. Faithful Bodies really does it all, with a provocative argument, careful archival research, creative historiographical connections, and evocative, accessible writing.
Ann M. Little,Colorado State University This is a fascinating and ... Read more

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