LEADER 05265nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910463873703321 005 20220208174631.0 010 $a1-283-89747-4 010 $a0-8122-0595-2 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205954 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046641 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000605800 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11426286 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000605800 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10575361 035 $a(PQKB)11423208 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441613 035 $a(OCoLC)794700584 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse13847 035 $a(DE-B1597)449428 035 $a(OCoLC)979881069 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205954 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441613 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576053 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420997 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046641 100 $a20100226d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCitizens of a Christian nation$b[electronic resource] $eEvangelical missions and the problem of race in the nineteenth century /$fDerek Chang 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $a237 p 225 1 $aPolitics and culture in modern America 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2206-7 311 $a0-8122-4218-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. "A Grand and Awful Time" --$tChapter 2. Faith and Hope --$tChapter 3. Callings --$tChapter 4. Congregation --$tChapter 5. Conflict and Community --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn America after the Civil War, the emancipation of four million slaves and the explosion of Chinese immigration fundamentally challenged traditional ideas about who belonged in the national polity. As Americans struggled to redefine citizenship in the United States, the "Negro Problem" and the "Chinese Question" dominated the debate. During this turbulent period, which witnessed the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision and passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, among other restrictive measures, American Baptists promoted religion instead of race as the primary marker of citizenship. Through its domestic missionary wing, the American Baptist Home Missionary Society, Baptists ministered to former slaves in the South and Chinese immigrants on the Pacific coast. Espousing an ideology of evangelical nationalism, in which the country would be united around Christianity rather than a particular race or creed, Baptists advocated inclusion of Chinese and African Americans in the national polity. Their hope for a Christian nation hinged on the social transformation of these two groups through spiritual and educational uplift. By 1900, the Society had helped establish important institutions that are still active today, including the Chinese Baptist Church and many historically black colleges and universities. Citizens of a Christian Nation chronicles the intertwined lives of African Americans, Chinese Americans, and the white missionaries who ministered to them. It traces the radical, religious, and nationalist ideology of the domestic mission movement, examining both the opportunities provided by the egalitarian tradition of evangelical Christianity and the limits imposed by its assumptions of cultural difference. The book further explores how blacks and Chinese reimagined the evangelical nationalist project to suit their own needs and hopes. Historian Derek Chang brings together for the first time African American and Chinese American religious histories through a multitiered local, regional, national, and even transnational analysis of race, nationalism, and evangelical thought and practice. 410 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America. 606 $aHome missions$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aBaptists$xMissions$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEvangelistic work$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xMissions$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aChinese Americans$xMissions$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWhite people$zUnited States$xAttitudes$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMissionaries$zUnited States$xAttitudes$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aRacism$xReligious aspects$xBaptists$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xReligious aspects$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHome missions$xHistory 615 0$aBaptists$xMissions$xHistory 615 0$aEvangelistic work$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xMissions$xHistory 615 0$aChinese Americans$xMissions$xHistory 615 0$aWhite people$xAttitudes$xHistory 615 0$aMissionaries$xAttitudes$xHistory 615 0$aRacism$xReligious aspects$xBaptists$xHistory 676 $a266.6131 700 $aChang$b Derek$f1969-$01046747 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463873703321 996 $aCitizens of a Christian nation$92473894 997 $aUNINA