American colonists founded a new identity on medieval Christian destiny and Anglo-Saxon mythology.
Evidence
Early colonists from England and elsewhere in Europe were also engaged in a slightly different project from their ancestors. Concerned with the conquest of land and the elimination of its inhabitants, they were also engaged in the project of formulating a new identity based on notions of Christian destiny, Anglo-Saxon mythology, racism, and Gothic sensibilities rooted in the medieval episteme. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 569
Categorization
Category: Connection Points
- XREF: Follows the medieval episteme lineage into white American identity — core to the reader’s mapping of where the monster-image migrates.
Related
- American colonial identity was built from medieval Christian and biblical archetypes (similarity 0.91)
- American civil religion is built on Biblical archetypes of chosenness and promised land. (similarity 0.80)
- American national identity was mythically tied to Anglo-Saxon medieval ancestry from its founding. (similarity 0.79)
- Christianity was the non-negotiable core of civilized status in the antebellum Americas (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- American civil religion is built on Biblical archetypes of chosenness and promised land.
#corroborates(0.70) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 569