Christian Ritual and the Creation of British Slave Societies, 1650-1780 (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900) - Softcover

Beasley, Nicholas M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820336459 ISBN 13: 9780820336459

Verlag: University of Georgia Press, 2010

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Beasley has produced a remarkable new illustration of southern liturgical culture and its adaptability to cultural, societal, and racial transformations. --Journal of Southern Religion In this terrifically astute study of Anglicanism in South Carolina, Barbados, and Jamaica, Nicholas M. Beasley brings ritual theory to bear on rich and rewarding sources . . . Beasley's most significant contribution is his reading liturgical culture through the lens of slavery. Beasley does not reduce religious practice in a crudely functionalist way, but he makes clear that elites' religious lives served their project of crafting a slave society. --Journal of Anglican and Episcopal History Beasley's view of the Atlantic brings not only institutional religion but also slavery and the plantation enterprise into sharp relief in different Atlantic sites. . . . Taken together, Beasley's work is an interesting and important contribution to the study of the religious cultures of the Atlantic World that will be useful both to scholars focused closely on the field and to those people interested more generally in the religions and cultures of the early Americas. --American Historical Review This book is a compelling study of Episcopalian Christianity in early American slave societies. Beasley displays a deep understanding of the ways that Christian ritual practice shaped English belonging in early Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina, showing how religion permeated even the most brutally materialistic of human societies. --Vincent Brown "author of The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery " Beasley tackles an important and mostly neglected subject and carries off his revisionist account with great flair. He joins the cutting edge of Atlantic World scholarship by looking at race in terms of interactions between blacks and whites, not by examining either group in isolation. Scholars of religion in colonial North America and the West Indies will need to reckon with this impressive book. --Erik R. Seeman "Pious Persuasions: Laity and Clergy in Eighteenth-Century New England "

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Offers a new look at Christian institutions and practices in Britain's Caribbean and southern American colonies. It argues that the tradition of liturgical worship in these places was more vibrant and more deeply rooted in European Christianity than previously thought, and that white colonists' attachment to religious continuity was thoroughly racialized. Drawing on a mix of historical and anthropological methods, topics covered include church architecture, pew seating customs, marriage, baptism, communion, and funerals.

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• Verlag: University of Georgia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0820336459
• ISBN 13: 9780820336459
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 238