Author: New York (N.Y.). St. Bartholomew's ChurchPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Year Book of St. Bartholomew's Church, New York City
Author: New York (N.Y.). St. Bartholomew's ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
The American Church Almanac and Year Book
Author: American Church Almanac and Year Book
Author: The Chinatown Trunk Mystery
Author: Mary Ting Yi LuiPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691216282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In the summer of 1909, the gruesome murder of nineteen-year-old Elsie Sigel sent shock waves through New York City and the nation at large. The young woman's strangled corpse was discovered inside a trunk in the midtown Manhattan apartment of her reputed former Sunday school student and lover, a Chinese man named Leon Ling. Through the lens of this unsolved murder, Mary Ting Yi Lui offers a fascinating snapshot of social and sexual relations between Chinese and non-Chinese populations in turn-of-the-century New York City. Sigel's murder was more than a notorious crime, Lui contends. It was a clear signal that attempts to maintain geographical and social boundaries between the city's Chinese male and white female populations had failed. When police discovered Sigel and Leon Ling's love letters, giving rise to the theory that Leon Ling killed his lover in a fit of jealous rage, this idea became even more embedded in the public consciousness. New Yorkers condemned the work of Chinese missions and eagerly participated in the massive national and international manhunt to locate the vanished Leon Ling. Lui explores how the narratives of racial and sexual danger that arose from the Sigel murder revealed widespread concerns about interracial social and sexual mixing during the era. She also examines how they provoked far-reaching skepticism about regulatory efforts to limit the social and physical mobility of Chinese immigrants and white working-class and middle-class women. Through her thorough re-examination of this notorious murder, Lui reveals in unprecedented detail how contemporary politics of race, gender, and sexuality shaped public responses to the presence of Chinese immigrants during the Chinese exclusion era.
Kingdom
Author: Yearbook
Author: New York (N.Y.) St. Bartholomew's parishPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Inventory of the Church Archives of New York City
Author: Historical Records Survey (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Year Book and Directory
Author: American Guild of OrganistsPublisher:
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Category : Organ (Musical instrument)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The New International Year Book
Author: Frank Moore ColbyPublisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Christian Homeland
Author: Gardiner H. ShattuckPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197665039
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Christian Homeland focuses on the involvement of clergy and prominent laity of the Episcopal Church in Middle Eastern affairs, both religious and political, between the Greek War of Independence (1821-1829) and the Second Arab-Israeli War (1956-1957), with a brief epilogue covering additional events up to the present day. As the birthplace of the Christian faith, the Middle East had always been an area of fascination to church people in the West, and with the expansion of American diplomatic and commercial interests into the Mediterranean in the early nineteenth century, Episcopalians and other American Protestants felt called to similarly export their religious values into the region. Beginning in the 1830s, Episcopalians established mission posts in Athens and Constantinople (Istanbul), from which they sought to convert Muslims and Jews to Christianity. Having failed to achieve any appreciable evangelistic success with non-Christians, they soon turned their attention to reforming the ancient churches of the East instead. Later assisted by the Church of England's missionary bishopric in Jerusalem, a small, but influential corps of Episcopalians dedicated themselves to keeping church members informed about the Middle East, particularly the status of the region's Christian population, well into the twentieth century. This book analyses how the theological ideas held by Episcopal church leaders not only guided missionary and religious activities, but also influenced their denomination's response to major social and political questions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries issues such as immigration into the United States, genocide, wartime refugee relief, anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the Palestinian Nakba.