England and the Jews: How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West

England and the Jews: How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West
ISBN-10
1108698182
ISBN-13
9781108698184
Category
Religion
Language
English
Published
2018-11-29
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Geraldine Heng

Description

For three centuries, a mixture of religion, violence, and economic conditions created a fertile matrix in Western Europe that racialized an entire diasporic population who lived in the urban centers of the Latin West: Jews. This Element explores how religion and violence, visited on Jewish bodies and Jewish lives, coalesced to create the first racial state in the history of the West. It is an example of how the methods and conceptual frames of postcolonial and race studies, when applied to the study of religion, can be productive of scholarship that rewrites the foundational history of the past.

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