03938nam 2200721 450 991046438260332120211007220353.00-8232-5717-70-8232-6083-60-8232-5715-010.1515/9780823257171(CKB)3710000000094287(EBL)3239893(SSID)ssj0001135875(PQKBManifestationID)12429961(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001135875(PQKBWorkID)11102143(PQKB)10224258(MiAaPQ)EBC3239893(DE-B1597)555140(DE-B1597)9780823257171(Au-PeEL)EBL3239893(CaPaEBR)ebr10852137(CaONFJC)MIL727786(OCoLC)923764109(OCoLC)878144555(EXLCZ)99371000000009428720140329h20142014 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrBecoming Christian race, reformation, and early modern English romance /Dennis Austin BrittonNew York :Fordham University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (272 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-96504-8 0-8232-5714-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --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 --IndexBecoming 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.English literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismReligion and literatureEnglandHistory16th centuryReligion and literatureEnglandHistory17th centuryConversion in literatureChristians in literatureElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Religion and literatureHistoryReligion and literatureHistoryConversion in literature.Christians in literature.820.9/382Britton Dennis Austin1044878MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464382603321Becoming Christian2470773UNINA