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

Explores how religion and violence visited on Jewish bodies and lives created the first racial state in the history of the West.

List of contents

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.

Product details

• Authors: Geraldine Heng, Heng Geraldine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781108740456
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74045-6
• No. of pages: 118
• Series: Elements in Religion and Violence; Elements in Religion and Viole; Elements in Religion and Violence
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / General, Judaism, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, Jews; Anti-Semitism; race; England; Europe