Heathen: Religion and Race in American History by Kathryn Gin Lum, Susan Baker

Heathen: Religion and Race in American History

Kathryn Gin Lum, Susan Baker

368 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 ...

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