Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race

(Part of the Early America: History, Context, Culture Series and Early America: History, Context, Culture Series)

by Rebecca Anne Goetz

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Christianity's role in furthering racism in early America.

In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices of English Virginians. She finds the seventeenth century a critical time in the development and articulation of racial ideologies--ultimately in the idea of "hereditary heathenism," the notion that Africans and Indians were incapable of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1421419815

ISBN13:9781421419817

Release Date:February 2016

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Religion Religion & Spirituality Social Science Social Sciences

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Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race

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