{"product_id":"baptism-of-early-virginia-how-christianity-created-race-9781421419817","title":"Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristianity's role in furthering racism in early America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Baptism of Early Virginia\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 genuine Christian conversion. In Virginia in particular, English settlers initially believed that native people would quickly become Christian and would form a vibrant partnership with English people. After vicious Anglo-Indian violence dashed those hopes, English Virginians used Christian rituals like marriage and baptism to exclude first Indians and then Africans from the privileges enjoyed by English Christians--including freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResistance to hereditary heathenism was not uncommon, however. Enslaved people and many Anglican ministers fought against planters' racial ideologies, setting the stage for Christian abolitionism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Using court records, letters, and pamphlets, Goetz suggests new ways of approaching and understanding the deeply entwined relationship between Christianity and race in early America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rebecca Anne Goetz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PAJ Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/16\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421419817\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Anne Goetz\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of history at New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"PAJ Publications","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44435153813619,"sku":"9781421419817","price":52.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_61fa57c5-3af1-4b18-bbb5-7c06ae05c1b2.jpg?v=1772806945","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/baptism-of-early-virginia-how-christianity-created-race-9781421419817","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}