|
|
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > General
The belief that Native Americans might belong to the fabled "lost
tribes of Israel"-Israelites driven from their homeland around 740
BCE-took hold among Anglo-Americans and Indigenous peoples in the
United States during its first half century. In Lost Tribes Found,
Matthew W. Dougherty explores what this idea can tell us about
religious nationalism in early America. Some white Protestants,
Mormons, American Jews, and Indigenous people constructed
nationalist narratives around the then-popular idea of "Israelite
Indians." Although these were minority viewpoints, they reveal that
the story of religion and nationalism in the early United States
was more complicated and wide-ranging than studies of American
"chosen-ness" or "manifest destiny" suggest. Telling stories about
Israelite Indians, Dougherty argues, allowed members of specific
communities to understand the expanding United States, to envision
its transformation, and to propose competing forms of sovereignty.
In these stories both settler and Indigenous intellectuals found
biblical explanations for the American empire and its stark racial
hierarchy. Lost Tribes Found goes beyond the legal and political
structure of the nineteenth-century U.S. empire. In showing how the
trope of the Israelite Indian appealed to the emotions that bound
together both nations and religious groups, the book adds a new
dimension and complexity to our understanding of the history and
underlying narratives of early America.
 |
Know Your Place
(Paperback)
Justin R Phillips; Foreword by David P. Gushee
|
R622
R561
Discovery Miles 5 610
Save R61 (10%)
|
Ships in 18 - 22 working days
|
|
|
|
|