England and the Jews: How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108740456)

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.

Author: Geraldine Heng
ISBN-10: 1108740456
ISBN-13: 9781108740456
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/29/2018
Pages: 118
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.25d