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Superstitions of the Heathen: Foreign Missions and the Fashioning of American Exceptionalism, 1800-1861.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Superstitions of the Heathen: Foreign Missions and the Fashioning of American Exceptionalism, 1800-1861./
Author:	Golding, David.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	348 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-02A(E).
Subject:	Religious history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10143732
ISBN:	9781339989273

Superstitions of the Heathen: Foreign Missions and the Fashioning of American Exceptionalism, 1800-1861.
Golding, David.

Superstitions of the Heathen: Foreign Missions and the Fashioning of American Exceptionalism, 1800-1861. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 348 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Claremont Graduate University, 2016.

In 1800, the first missionary magazines to be published in the United States entered circulation. Readers would soon rely on this growing literature for information about the world beyond. As missionary writers abroad interacted within foreign contexts, they would fashion and delimit categories of difference separating the foreign from the domestic. Their conceptions not only exoticized their foreign hosts, but also implied and reinforced an identity for themselves. Magazine editors and writers predicated their identity on there being heathen in the world and stood ready to track "superstition" in the interest of alerting supporters to the presence of the unevangelized. The predominant narratives between the first magazine issues and the outbreak of civil war in 1861 cast several changing complexions of the foreign, moving from expectations of the "heathen" as ethnically distinct and religiously inferior to threatening rivals capable of colluding with state powers. Whether adjusting for tepid results among Native Americans and Jews, or factoring degrees of conversion among Islanders and West Africans, or appropriating native assistants in Burman church planting, or crafting diplomatic strategies among the Chinese, writers and editors perpetuated a willingness to believe in heathen inferiority no matter the situation. In all, proselytes remained attached to the class of the unconverted unless they exhibited traits of American domesticity. Only when factional controversies disrupted the organizations and media of the foreign missions enterprise did the persistence of a strong missionary identity give way. A plurality of missionary types joined the plurality of "heathen" types during the Civil War era, further complicating the missions movement for the next century and the exceptionalisms once taken for granted.

ISBN: 9781339989273Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122824
Religious history.

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