A Contest of Faiths : Missionary Women and Pluralism in the American Southwest /
Yohn, Susan M.
A Contest of Faiths : Missionary Women and Pluralism in the American Southwest / Susan M. Yohn. - 1 online resource (272 p.) : 16 b&w photographs
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. A Woman s Club of National Interest: The Emergence of the Female Home Missionary -- CHAPTER TWO. A Question of Loyalty and a Contest of Faiths: The Meeting between Anglo and Hispano Cultures -- CHAPTER THREE. "Understanding the Way": Becoming a Missionary -- CHAPTER FOUR. "I Am Part of All I Have Met": Women Home Missionaries in Hispano New Mexico -- CHAPTER FIVE. At the Heart of the "Cause": Hispano Mission Students and the Meaning of Faith -- CHAPTER SIX. From Mission to Social Service: The Rise of a New Creed -- Bibliography -- Index
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Susan M. Yohn here reconstructs the interactions between Presbyterian women missionaries in the southwest and the native Hispanic-Catholic people they set out to "Americanize" between 1867 and 1924. In the process, she reveals how many Protestant women reformers shared a series of experiences that contributed to a national dialogue about cultural pluralism.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501738111
10.7591/9781501738111 doi
Religious Studies.
U.S. History.
RELIGION / Faith.
A Contest of Faiths : Missionary Women and Pluralism in the American Southwest / Susan M. Yohn. - 1 online resource (272 p.) : 16 b&w photographs
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. A Woman s Club of National Interest: The Emergence of the Female Home Missionary -- CHAPTER TWO. A Question of Loyalty and a Contest of Faiths: The Meeting between Anglo and Hispano Cultures -- CHAPTER THREE. "Understanding the Way": Becoming a Missionary -- CHAPTER FOUR. "I Am Part of All I Have Met": Women Home Missionaries in Hispano New Mexico -- CHAPTER FIVE. At the Heart of the "Cause": Hispano Mission Students and the Meaning of Faith -- CHAPTER SIX. From Mission to Social Service: The Rise of a New Creed -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Susan M. Yohn here reconstructs the interactions between Presbyterian women missionaries in the southwest and the native Hispanic-Catholic people they set out to "Americanize" between 1867 and 1924. In the process, she reveals how many Protestant women reformers shared a series of experiences that contributed to a national dialogue about cultural pluralism.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501738111
10.7591/9781501738111 doi
Religious Studies.
U.S. History.
RELIGION / Faith.