Investigates the processes of conversion to Christianity in early modern England alongside the imaginal limits imposed upon the process by race. The book uses connections between Christianity, conversion, embodiment, and hereditary traits to demonstrate not only how Christian identity was seen as inheritable among white communities, but how English literature reveals a degree of skepticism about baptism’s power to overcome somatic markers, deployed to secure a racially homogenized Christian England. Engages conversations in the study of conversion, embodiment, and English literature.