Heathen : : Religion and Race in American History / / Kathryn Gin Lum.
An innovative history that shows how the religious idea of the heathen in need of salvation undergirds American conceptions of race. If an eighteenth-century parson told you that the difference between “civilization and heathenism is sky-high and star-far,” the words would hardly come as a shock. Bu...
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Gin Lum, Kathryn, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Heathen : Religion and Race in American History / Kathryn Gin Lum. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (368 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Terms -- Prologue:Returning the Gaze -- Introduction: A Heathen Inheritance -- Part I Imagining the Heathen World -- Introduction -- 1 Precedents -- 2 Origin stories -- 3 Landscapes -- 4 Bodies -- Part II The Body Politic -- Introduction -- 5 Barometer -- 6 Exclusion -- 7 Inclusion -- Part III Inheritances -- 8 Preservation and pushback -- 9 Resonances -- 10 Continuing counterscripts -- Epilogue “The Aforesaid Heathen Peoples” -- Postscript The More Things Change . . . -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star An innovative history that shows how the religious idea of the heathen in need of salvation undergirds American conceptions of race. If an eighteenth-century parson told you that the difference between “civilization and heathenism is sky-high and star-far,” the words would hardly come as a shock. But that statement was written by an American missionary in 1971. In a sweeping historical narrative, Kathryn Gin Lum shows how the idea of the heathen has been maintained from the colonial era to the present in religious and secular discourses—discourses, specifically, of race. Americans long viewed the world as a realm of suffering heathens whose lands and lives needed their intervention to flourish. The term “heathen” fell out of common use by the early 1900s, leading some to imagine that racial categories had replaced religious differences. But the ideas underlying the figure of the heathen did not disappear. Americans still treat large swaths of the world as “other” due to their assumed need for conversion to American ways. Purported heathens have also contributed to the ongoing significance of the concept, promoting solidarity through their opposition to white American Christianity. Gin Lum looks to figures like Chinese American activist Wong Chin Foo and Ihanktonwan Dakota writer Zitkála-Šá, who proudly claimed the label of “heathen” for themselves. Race continues to operate as a heathen inheritance in the United States, animating Americans’ sense of being a world apart from an undifferentiated mass of needy, suffering peoples. Heathen thus reveals a key source of American exceptionalism and a prism through which Americans have defined themselves as a progressive and humanitarian nation even as supposed heathens have drawn on the same to counter this national myth. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) RELIGION / Christianity / History. bisacsh Africa/Africans. Asia/Asians. China/Chinese. Chinese Exclusion. Christianity. Classics. Conversion. Developing World. Hawaii/Hawaiians. Idolatry. India/Indians. Missionaries. Native Americans. Pagan. Primitivism. Third World. World’s Parliament of Religions. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2022 English 9783110992915 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2022 9783110992878 ZDB-23-DGD Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110785791 print 9780674976771 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674275782?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674275782 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674275782/original |
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