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A Contest of Faiths : Missionary Women and Pluralism in the American Southwest / Susan M. Yohn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) : 16 b&w photographsContent type:
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  • 9781501738111
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

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