| #2345449 in Books | 2014-07-18 | 2014-07-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x1.00 x5.98l,.0 | File type: PDF | 416 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| The political reasons behind religion in the colonies.|By B. Wolinsky|Kopelson, a professor at the University of Alabama, examines an issue of history that is often overlooked. She compares religious practices in three different American colonies, and how they shaped views on race and social class. Before I go further, I want to refer to the young adult classic “The Witch||“The author of this study makes an important contribution to a growing conversation about race and religion in the puritan Atlantic world.”-The Historian
“Wide ranging but at times incredibly detailed, Faithful Bodies
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,&...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Faithful Bodies: Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic (Early American Places) | Heather Miyano Kopelson. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
