Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-176) and index.
The shape of difference in missionary discourse -- From homogeneity to diversity : missionary responses to scientific racism -- Missionaries and the Chinese exclusion act -- Missionaries and the exclusion of the Japanese -- Missionary discourse and United States vs. Bhagat Singh Thind.
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Examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final, belated culmination in the liberal Protestant support of the civil rights movements in the 1960s.
Asian Americans-- Religion.
Ethnic relations-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.
Missionaries.
Race relations-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.
15.85 history of America.
Asian Americans-- Religion.
Asiatischer Einwanderer.
Ethnic relations-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.
Mission.
Missionar.
Missionaries.
Race relations-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.