A Contest of Faiths : : Missionary Women and Pluralism in the American Southwest / / Susan M. Yohn.
Susan M. Yohn here reconstructs the interactions between Presbyterian women missionaries in the southwest and the native Hispanic-Catholic people they set out to "Americanize" between 1867 and 1924. In the process, she reveals how many Protestant women reformers shared a series of experien...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1995 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 16 b&w photographs |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. A Woman s Club of National Interest: The Emergence of the Female Home Missionary -- CHAPTER TWO. A Question of Loyalty and a Contest of Faiths: The Meeting between Anglo and Hispano Cultures -- CHAPTER THREE. "Understanding the Way": Becoming a Missionary -- CHAPTER FOUR. "I Am Part of All I Have Met": Women Home Missionaries in Hispano New Mexico -- CHAPTER FIVE. At the Heart of the "Cause": Hispano Mission Students and the Meaning of Faith -- CHAPTER SIX. From Mission to Social Service: The Rise of a New Creed -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | Susan M. Yohn here reconstructs the interactions between Presbyterian women missionaries in the southwest and the native Hispanic-Catholic people they set out to "Americanize" between 1867 and 1924. In the process, she reveals how many Protestant women reformers shared a series of experiences that contributed to a national dialogue about cultural pluralism. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501738111 9783110536171 |
DOI: | 10.7591/9781501738111 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Susan M. Yohn. |