Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race

by Rebecca Anne Goetz

Book Overview

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 genuine...

• 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"