Author: Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300053777
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The chaotic and reputedly immoral behaviour of the miners who made up the gold rush to the Californian frontier greatly worried the evangelical protestants from the Northeast. They sent missionaries to spread the word and transplant their beliefs. This book is the story of that enterprise.
Religion and Society in Frontier California
Author: Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300053777
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The chaotic and reputedly immoral behaviour of the miners who made up the gold rush to the Californian frontier greatly worried the evangelical protestants from the Northeast. They sent missionaries to spread the word and transplant their beliefs. This book is the story of that enterprise.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300053777
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The chaotic and reputedly immoral behaviour of the miners who made up the gold rush to the Californian frontier greatly worried the evangelical protestants from the Northeast. They sent missionaries to spread the word and transplant their beliefs. This book is the story of that enterprise.
Religion and Society in Frontier California
Author: Laurie F Maffly-Kipp
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300206449
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The chaotic and reputedly immoral society of the California mining frontier during the gold rush period greatly worried Protestant evangelicals from the Northeast, and they soon sent missionaries westward to transplant their religious institutions, beliefs, and practices in the area. This book tells the story of that enterprise, showing how it developed, why it failed, and what patterns of religious adherence evolved in the West in place of evangelical Protestantism. Laurie Maffly-Kipp begins by analyzing the eastern-based religious ideology that underlay the movement westward and by investigating the motives behind the founding of home mission boards dedicated to the spread of Christianity and civility among new settlers. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and journals of hundreds of California "argonauts," Maffly-Kipp describes those missionaries and their wives sent to California after 1848 and the virtually all-male mining society that resisted the missionaries' notions of moral order and in turn created new religious beliefs and practices. Maffly-Kipp argues that despite its alleged immorality, the California gold rush was actually one of the most morally significant events of the nineteenth century, for it challenged and brought into conflict the cherished values of antebellum American culture: a commitment to spiritual and social progress; a concern with self-discipline, moral character, and proper gender roles; and a thirst for wealth fostered by the spirit of free enterprise.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300206449
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The chaotic and reputedly immoral society of the California mining frontier during the gold rush period greatly worried Protestant evangelicals from the Northeast, and they soon sent missionaries westward to transplant their religious institutions, beliefs, and practices in the area. This book tells the story of that enterprise, showing how it developed, why it failed, and what patterns of religious adherence evolved in the West in place of evangelical Protestantism. Laurie Maffly-Kipp begins by analyzing the eastern-based religious ideology that underlay the movement westward and by investigating the motives behind the founding of home mission boards dedicated to the spread of Christianity and civility among new settlers. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and journals of hundreds of California "argonauts," Maffly-Kipp describes those missionaries and their wives sent to California after 1848 and the virtually all-male mining society that resisted the missionaries' notions of moral order and in turn created new religious beliefs and practices. Maffly-Kipp argues that despite its alleged immorality, the California gold rush was actually one of the most morally significant events of the nineteenth century, for it challenged and brought into conflict the cherished values of antebellum American culture: a commitment to spiritual and social progress; a concern with self-discipline, moral character, and proper gender roles; and a thirst for wealth fostered by the spirit of free enterprise.
Frontier Religion in an Era of Transition
Author: Michael Eric Engh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The Frontier Spirit in American Christianity
Author: Peter George Mode
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Religion of the Indians of California
Author: A. L. Kroeber
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243631629
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243631629
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Thrown Among Strangers
Author: Douglas Monroy
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520082753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Every California schoolchild's first interaction with history begins with the missions and Indians. It is the pastoralist image, of course, and it is a lasting one. Children in elementary school hear how Father Serra and the priests brought civilization to the groveling, lizard- and acorn-eating Indians of such communities as Yang-na, now Los Angeles. So edified by history, many of those children drag their parents to as many missions as they can. Then there is the other side of the missions, one that a mural decorating a savings and loan office in the San Fernando Valley first showed to me as a child. On it a kindly priest holds a large cross over a kneeling Indian. For some reason, though, the padre apparently aims not to bless the Indian but rather to bludgeon him with the emblem of Christianity. This portrait, too, clings to the memory, capturing the critical view of the missionization of California's indigenous inhabitants. I carried the two childhood images with me both when I went to libraries as I researched the missions and when I revisited several missions thirty years after those family trips. In this work I proceed neither to dubunk nor to reconcile these contrary notions of the missions and Indians but to present a new and, I hope, deeper understanding of the complex interaction of the two antithetical cultures.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520082753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Every California schoolchild's first interaction with history begins with the missions and Indians. It is the pastoralist image, of course, and it is a lasting one. Children in elementary school hear how Father Serra and the priests brought civilization to the groveling, lizard- and acorn-eating Indians of such communities as Yang-na, now Los Angeles. So edified by history, many of those children drag their parents to as many missions as they can. Then there is the other side of the missions, one that a mural decorating a savings and loan office in the San Fernando Valley first showed to me as a child. On it a kindly priest holds a large cross over a kneeling Indian. For some reason, though, the padre apparently aims not to bless the Indian but rather to bludgeon him with the emblem of Christianity. This portrait, too, clings to the memory, capturing the critical view of the missionization of California's indigenous inhabitants. I carried the two childhood images with me both when I went to libraries as I researched the missions and when I revisited several missions thirty years after those family trips. In this work I proceed neither to dubunk nor to reconcile these contrary notions of the missions and Indians but to present a new and, I hope, deeper understanding of the complex interaction of the two antithetical cultures.
Frontier Faiths
Author: Michael E. Engh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Prophets and Paupers
Author: Harland Edwin Hogue
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Nothing like this vast migration from so many nations and cultures had ever taken place in the history of the world, especially into one small geographical area. And nothing like it has happened since. At the same time the religious world was in the process of sending out missionaries to the ends of the earth. Dr. Hogue shows us that the religious communities at their best left a legacy of integrity and hope in the midst of one of the most disheartening and often crass periods of American Western history.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Nothing like this vast migration from so many nations and cultures had ever taken place in the history of the world, especially into one small geographical area. And nothing like it has happened since. At the same time the religious world was in the process of sending out missionaries to the ends of the earth. Dr. Hogue shows us that the religious communities at their best left a legacy of integrity and hope in the midst of one of the most disheartening and often crass periods of American Western history.
The Religion of the Indians of California
Author: Alfred Louis Kroeber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The Religion of the Indians of California
Author: Alfred Louis Kroeber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description