Format:
1 online resource (257 pages)
ISBN:
9780231508599
Series Statement:
Religion and American Culture
Content:
-- Choice.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acnowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Benevolent Design: Mapping the Landscape -- Mappers and Missionaries -- The Connecticut Land Company: Mapping -- In regard to the Heathen on our borders": Erasing the Natives -- "The most benevolent designs": Missionary Publications -- 2. Models of Piety: Protestant Missionaries on the Frontier -- "I find I can preach, if I can ride": Missionary Letters -- Difficulties inseparable to a family": Age, Marital Status, and Missions -- "I have no prospect of being popular": Social Status and Missionary Labor -- "Book knowledge is not all": The Heart, Not the Head -- "Born and raised in the woods": Homegrown Missionaries -- 3. The Moral Garden of the Western World: Bodies, Towns, and Families -- "Nurseries of piety": Body, Town, and Family -- "A considerable phalanx of infidelity": Religious Rivalry and the Body -- "Scattered promiscuously over the face of the country": Town Planning and Moral Order -- "One great step towards a state of barbarism": Family and Home Order -- 4. Geography Made Easy: Geographies and Travel Literature -- Geography Made Easy: Mapping and Moralizing -- Domestic Travel Narratives -- Fairy-Tale Reports: Western Reserve Travel Literature -- A Correct View: New Connecticut as the Promised Land -- 5. A Beacon in the WIlderness: Moral Inscriptions on the Landscape -- The Oberlin Colony and Institute -- Building Up Society: Missionary Institutions -- Ecclesiastical Outlaws -- Moral and Spatial Order -- Conclusion: Moral Geography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231127899
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780231127899
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=909328
