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Author Chang, Derek, 1969-

Title Citizens of a Christian nation : Evangelical missions and the problem of race in the nineteenth century / Derek Chang
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (237 pages)
Series Politics and culture in modern America.
Contents Introduction: Evangelical Christianity and the problem of difference -- "A grand and awful time" -- Faith and hope -- Callings -- Congregation -- Conflict and community -- Conclusion: Transformations
Summary 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
Analysis American History
American Studies
Political Science
Notes OldControl:muse9780812205954
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject American Baptist Home Mission Society -- History -- 19th century
SUBJECT American Baptist Home Mission Society fast
Subject Racism -- Religious aspects -- Baptists -- History -- 19th century
Missionaries -- United States -- Attitudes -- History -- 19th century
White people -- United States -- Attitudes -- History -- 19th century
Chinese Americans -- Missions -- History -- 19th century
African Americans -- Missions -- History -- 19th century
Evangelistic work -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Baptists -- Missions -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Home missions -- United States -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Racism -- Religious aspects -- Baptists
African Americans -- Missions
Baptists -- Missions
Chinese Americans -- Missions
Evangelistic work
Home missions
Missionaries -- Attitudes
Race relations -- Religious aspects
White people -- Attitudes
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- History -- 19th century
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812205954
0812205952
1283897474
9781283897471