Citizens of a Christian Nation - Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor Derek Chang Klappentext Derek Chang is Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at Cornell University. Zusammenfassung Derek Chang chronicles the American Baptist Home Mission Society's efforts to evangelize among African Americans in the South and Chinese migrants on the Pacific Coast during the late nineteenth century. He brings together for the first time African American and Chinese American religious histories in an innovative comparative approach. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Evangelical Christianity and the Problem of Difference 1. "A Grand and Awful Time" 2. Faith and Hope 3. Callings 4. Congregation 5. Conflict and Community Conclusion Transformations Notes Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Derek Chang
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.05.2012
• EAN: 9780812222067
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2206-7
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Politics and Culture in Modern; Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous