| Faithful Bodies: Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic Subjects: Massachusetts -- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- History -- 17th century; Rhode Island -- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- History -- 17th century; Bermuda Islands -- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- History -- 17th century; Great Brita; In the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism provided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries between insider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather Miyano Kopelson Heather Miyano : Heather Miyano Kopelson is Associate Professor of History and Affiliated Faculty in Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. |