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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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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