England and the Jews

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-108-74045-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 118 Seiten, Format (B × H): 121 mm x 173 mm, Gewicht: 112 g

Reihe: Elements in Religion and Violence

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heng, Geraldine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Religious race: racializing Jews in the twelfth and thirteenth century European west; 2. Church and state, law, learning, governmentality: architectures of racial formation, thirteenth–fifteenth centuries; 3. England's Jews: a case study of the first racial state in the West; 4. The English panopticon: from fiscal control to segregation powers; 5. Religion, money, and violence in the creation of the raced subject; 6. Church and state collusion in the constitution of the racial subaltern; 7. Conversion as racial passing: the politics of sensory race; 8. Stories of England's dead boys, and a sequel: how a new race, and its home are formed, post-Jewish expulsion.