LEADER 03938nam 2200721 450 001 9910464382603321 005 20211007220353.0 010 $a0-8232-5717-7 010 $a0-8232-6083-6 010 $a0-8232-5715-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823257171 035 $a(CKB)3710000000094287 035 $a(EBL)3239893 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001135875 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12429961 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001135875 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11102143 035 $a(PQKB)10224258 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239893 035 $a(DE-B1597)555140 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823257171 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239893 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10852137 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL727786 035 $a(OCoLC)923764109 035 $a(OCoLC)878144555 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000094287 100 $a20140329h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBecoming Christian $erace, reformation, and early modern English romance /$fDennis Austin Britton 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-322-96504-8 311 0 $a0-8232-5714-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tFigures --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. Not Turning the Ethiope White --$t1. ?The Baptiz?d Race? --$t2. Ovidian Baptism in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene --$t3. Infidel Texts and Errant Sexuality --$t4. Transformative and Restorative Romance --$t5. Reproducing Christians --$tAfterword. A Political Afterlife of a Theology of Race and Conversion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aBecoming 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aReligion and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aReligion and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aConversion in literature 606 $aChristians in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aReligion and literature$xHistory 615 0$aReligion and literature$xHistory 615 0$aConversion in literature. 615 0$aChristians in literature. 676 $a820.9/382 700 $aBritton$b Dennis Austin$01044878 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464382603321 996 $aBecoming Christian$92470773 997 $aUNINA