"Competing Kingdoms" rethinks the importance of women and religion
within U.S. imperial culture from the early nineteenth century to
the mid-twentieth. In an era when the United States was emerging as
a world power to challenge the hegemony of European imperial
powers, American women missionaries strove to create a new Kingdom
of God. They did much to shape a Protestant empire based on
American values and institutions. This book examines American
women's activism in a broad transnational context. It offers a
complex array of engagements with their efforts to provide rich
intercultural histories about the global expansion of American
culture and American Protestantism.
An international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, the
contributors bring under-utilized evidence from U.S. and non-U.S.
sources to bear on the study of American women missionaries abroad
and at home. Focusing on women from several denominations, they
build on the insights of postcolonial scholarship to incorporate
the agency of the people among whom missionaries lived. They
explore how people in China, the Congo Free State, Egypt, India,
Japan, Ndebeleland (colonial Rhodesia), Ottoman Bulgaria, and the
Philippines perceived, experienced, and negotiated American
cultural expansion. They also consider missionary work among people
within the United States who were constructed as foreign, including
African Americans, Native Americans, and Chinese immigrants. By
presenting multiple cultural perspectives, this important
collection challenges simplistic notions about missionary cultural
imperialism, revealing the complexity of American missionary
attitudes toward race and the ways that ideas of domesticity were
reworked and appropriated in various settings. It expands the field
of U.S. women's history into the international arena, increases
understanding of the global spread of American culture, and offers
new concepts for analyzing the history of American empire.
"Contributors" Beth Baron, Betty Bergland, Mary Kupiec Cayton,
Derek Chang, Sue Gronewold, Jane Hunter, Sylvia Jacobs, Susan
Haskell Khan, Rui Kohiyama, Laura Prieto, Barbara Reeves-Ellington,
Mary Renda, Connie A. Shemo, Kathryn Kish Sklar, Ian Tyrrell, Wendy
Urban-Mead
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