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1 online resource (257 pages) |
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Religion and American Culture |
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Religion and American Culture
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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 |
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"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 |
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Fairy-Tale Reports: Western Reserve Travel LiteratureA 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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Annotation How can monkeys be both eaten as food and nurtured as children? Her research reveals that monkeys play a vital role in Guaja society, ecology, economy, and religion. In Guajá animistic beliefs, all forms of plant and animal life -- especially monkeys -- have souls and are woven into a comprehensive kinship system |
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Print version record |
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Missionary Society of Connecticut -- History -- 19th century
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Missionary Society of Connecticut. fast (OCoLC)fst00631781 |
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Missions -- Ohio -- Western Reserve -- History -- 19th century
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Christianity and geography -- Ohio -- Western Reserve -- History -- 19th century
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Congregational churches -- Missions -- Connecticut -- Ohio -- Western Reserve -- History -- 19th century
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Presbyterian Church -- Missions -- Ohio -- Western Reserve -- History -- 19th century
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RELIGION -- Religion, Politics & State.
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Christianity and geography.
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Congregational churches -- Missions.
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Missions.
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Presbyterian Church -- Missions.
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Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Church history -- 19th century
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Ohio -- Western Reserve.
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Church history.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780231508599 |
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023150859X |
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