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Heathen: Religion and Race in American History

by Kathryn Gin Lum

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 star-far,” the words would hardly come as a shock.

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780674976771