Author: Baptist Wriothesley Noel
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Christian Missions to Heathen Nations
Author: Baptist Wriothesley Noel
Publisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Publisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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The Heathen Nations
Author: Sandwich Islands Mission
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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The Heathen School
Author: John Demos
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385351666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award The astonishing story of a unique missionary project—and the America it embodied—from award-winning historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider world, a group of eminent Protestant ministers formed a grand scheme for gathering the rest of mankind into the redemptive fold of Christianity and “civilization.” Its core element was a special school for “heathen youth” drawn from all parts of the earth, including the Pacific Islands, China, India, and, increasingly, the native nations of North America. If all went well, graduates would return to join similar projects in their respective homelands. For some years, the school prospered, indeed became quite famous. However, when two Cherokee students courted and married local women, public resolve—and fundamental ideals—were put to a severe test. The Heathen School follows the progress, and the demise, of this first true melting pot through the lives of individual students: among them, Henry Obookiah, a young Hawaiian who ran away from home and worked as a seaman in the China Trade before ending up in New England; John Ridge, son of a powerful Cherokee chief and subsequently a leader in the process of Indian “removal”; and Elias Boudinot, editor of the first newspaper published by and for Native Americans. From its birth as a beacon of hope for universal “salvation,” the heathen school descends into bitter controversy, as American racial attitudes harden and intensify. Instead of encouraging reconciliation, the school exposes the limits of tolerance and sets off a chain of events that will culminate tragically in the Trail of Tears. In The Heathen School, John Demos marshals his deep empathy and feel for the textures of history to tell a moving story of families and communities—and to probe the very roots of American identity.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385351666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award The astonishing story of a unique missionary project—and the America it embodied—from award-winning historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider world, a group of eminent Protestant ministers formed a grand scheme for gathering the rest of mankind into the redemptive fold of Christianity and “civilization.” Its core element was a special school for “heathen youth” drawn from all parts of the earth, including the Pacific Islands, China, India, and, increasingly, the native nations of North America. If all went well, graduates would return to join similar projects in their respective homelands. For some years, the school prospered, indeed became quite famous. However, when two Cherokee students courted and married local women, public resolve—and fundamental ideals—were put to a severe test. The Heathen School follows the progress, and the demise, of this first true melting pot through the lives of individual students: among them, Henry Obookiah, a young Hawaiian who ran away from home and worked as a seaman in the China Trade before ending up in New England; John Ridge, son of a powerful Cherokee chief and subsequently a leader in the process of Indian “removal”; and Elias Boudinot, editor of the first newspaper published by and for Native Americans. From its birth as a beacon of hope for universal “salvation,” the heathen school descends into bitter controversy, as American racial attitudes harden and intensify. Instead of encouraging reconciliation, the school exposes the limits of tolerance and sets off a chain of events that will culminate tragically in the Trail of Tears. In The Heathen School, John Demos marshals his deep empathy and feel for the textures of history to tell a moving story of families and communities—and to probe the very roots of American identity.
The Divine Authority and Encouragement of Missions from Christians to the Heathen
Author: Bryce Johnston
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Heathen
Author: Kathryn Gin Lum
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674976770
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
American ideas about race owe much to the notion of an undifferentiated “heathen world” held together by its need of assistance. This religious notion shaped American racial governance and undergirds American exceptionalism, even as purported heathens have drawn on their characterization as such to push back against this national myth.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674976770
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
American ideas about race owe much to the notion of an undifferentiated “heathen world” held together by its need of assistance. This religious notion shaped American racial governance and undergirds American exceptionalism, even as purported heathens have drawn on their characterization as such to push back against this national myth.
The State of the Heathen World Disclosed, and the Necessity of Making Every Exertion to Put Them in Possession of the Means of Salvation. ... A Sermon [on Acts Xvi. 9], Preached. 27th Nov. 1814, Etc
Author: Robert HALL (of Kelso.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Heathen Nations
The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.
Author: John Wesley
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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