Calvinist divine election hardened racial boundaries against earlier Catholic monogenism

Evidence

The rise of Protestantism, and most notably the strict Calvinist strain among the Dutch, elevated the notion of divine election, made conversion more difficult, and mixture between those considered chosen and those deemed doomed subject to greater constraints than they had been earlier. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1322

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies monogenism/polygenism shift alongside the religious mechanism.
• XREF: connects to: Calvinist divine election made racial mixing harder to accept; Racial rigidity at the Cape tightened with Protestant ideas of divine election — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1322; Race served as a theological marker separating the blessed from the cursed — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1370 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Calvinist divine election made racial mixing harder to accept #corroborates (0.95)
• Racial rigidity at the Cape tightened with Protestant ideas of divine election #corroborates (0.88) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1322
• Race was co-constituted with religion in European history. #expands (0.80) — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion, 31
• Race served as a theological marker separating the blessed from the cursed #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1370
• Religion served as the primary vehicle for racial difference in early modern Europe #expands (0.72) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 187