Citizens of a Christian Nation : : Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century / / Derek Chang.
In America after the Civil War, the emancipation of four million slaves and the explosion of Chinese immigration fundamentally challenged traditional ideas about who belonged in the national polity. As Americans struggled to redefine citizenship in the United States, the "Negro Problem" an...
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Chang, Derek, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Citizens of a Christian Nation : Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century / Derek Chang. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011] ©2010 1 online resource (248 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Politics and Culture in Modern America Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "A Grand and Awful Time" -- Chapter 2. Faith and Hope -- Chapter 3. Callings -- Chapter 4. Congregation -- Chapter 5. Conflict and Community -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In America after the Civil War, the emancipation of four million slaves and the explosion of Chinese immigration fundamentally challenged traditional ideas about who belonged in the national polity. As Americans struggled to redefine citizenship in the United States, the "Negro Problem" and the "Chinese Question" dominated the debate.During this turbulent period, which witnessed the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision and passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, among other restrictive measures, American Baptists promoted religion instead of race as the primary marker of citizenship. Through its domestic missionary wing, the American Baptist Home Missionary Society, Baptists ministered to former slaves in the South and Chinese immigrants on the Pacific coast. Espousing an ideology of evangelical nationalism, in which the country would be united around Christianity rather than a particular race or creed, Baptists advocated inclusion of Chinese and African Americans in the national polity. Their hope for a Christian nation hinged on the social transformation of these two groups through spiritual and educational uplift. By 1900, the Society had helped establish important institutions that are still active today, including the Chinese Baptist Church and many historically black colleges and universities.Citizens of a Christian Nation chronicles the intertwined lives of African Americans, Chinese Americans, and the white missionaries who ministered to them. It traces the radical, religious, and nationalist ideology of the domestic mission movement, examining both the opportunities provided by the egalitarian tradition of evangelical Christianity and the limits imposed by its assumptions of cultural difference. The book further explores how blacks and Chinese reimagined the evangelical nationalist project to suit their own needs and hopes.Historian Derek Chang brings together for the first time African American and Chinese American religious histories through a multitiered local, regional, national, and even transnational analysis of race, nationalism, and evangelical thought and practice. Issued also in print. 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 24. Apr 2022) African Americans Missions History 19th century. Baptists Missions United States History 19th century. Chinese Americans Missions History 19th century. Evangelistic work United States History 19th century. Home missions United States History 19th century. Missionaries Attitudes. Missionaries United States Attitudes History 19th century. Race relations Religious aspects. Racism Religious aspects Baptists History 19th century. White people United States Attitudes History 19th century. Whites Attitudes. Whites United States Attitudes History 19th century. American Studies. HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. bisacsh American History. Political Science. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History 9783110413496 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812242188 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205954 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812205954 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812205954/original |
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