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Were indigenous Americans descendants of the lost tribes of Israel?
From the moment Europeans realized Columbus had landed in a place
unknown to them in 1492, they began speculating about how the
Americas and their inhabitants fit into the Bible. For many, the
most compelling explanation was the Hebraic Indian theory, which
proposed that indigenous Americans were the descendants of the ten
lost tribes of Israel. For its proponents, the theory neatly
explained why this giant land and its inhabitants were not
mentioned in the Biblical record. In Old Canaan in a New World,
Elizabeth Fenton shows that though the Hebraic Indian theory may
seem far-fetched today, it had a great deal of currency and
significant influence over a very long period of American history.
Indeed, at different times the idea that indigenous Americans were
descended from the lost tribes of Israel was taken up to support
political and religious positions on diverse issues including
Christian millennialism, national expansion, trade policies, Jewish
rights, sovereignty in the Americas, and scientific exploration.
Through analysis of a wide collection of writings-from religious
texts to novels-Fenton sheds light on a rarely explored but
important part of religious discourse in early America. As the
Hebraic Indian theory evolved over the course of two centuries, it
revealed how religious belief and national interest intersected in
early American history.
The Routledge Companion to Bioethics is a comprehensive reference
guide to a wide range of contemporary concerns in bioethics. The
volume orients the reader in a changing landscape shaped by
globalization, health disparities, and rapidly advancing
technologies. Bioethics has begun a turn toward a systematic
concern with social justice, population health, and public policy.
While also covering more traditional topics, this volume fully
captures this recent shift and foreshadows the resulting
developments in bioethics. It highlights emerging issues such as
climate change, transgender, and medical tourism, and re-examines
enduring topics, such as autonomy, end-of-life care, and resource
allocation.
The Routledge Companion to Bioethics is a comprehensive reference
guide to a wide range of contemporary concerns in bioethics. The
volume orients the reader in a changing landscape shaped by
globalization, health disparities, and rapidly advancing
technologies. Bioethics has begun a turn toward a systematic
concern with social justice, population health, and public policy.
While also covering more traditional topics, this volume fully
captures this recent shift and foreshadows the resulting
developments in bioethics. It highlights emerging issues such as
climate change, transgender, and medical tourism, and re-examines
enduring topics, such as autonomy, end-of-life care, and resource
allocation.
Were indigenous Americans descendants of the lost tribes of Israel?
From the moment Europeans realized Columbus had landed in a place
unknown to them in 1492, they began speculating about how the
Americas and their inhabitants fit into the Bible. For many, the
most compelling explanation was the Hebraic Indian theory, which
proposed that indigenous Americans were the descendants of the ten
lost tribes of Israel. For its proponents, the theory neatly
explained why this giant land and its inhabitants were not
mentioned in the Biblical record. In Old Canaan in a New World,
Elizabeth Fenton shows that though the Hebraic Indian theory may
seem far-fetched today, it had a great deal of currency and
significant influence over a very long period of American history.
Indeed, at different times the idea that indigenous Americans were
descended from the lost tribes of Israel was taken up to support
political and religious positions on diverse issues including
Christian millennialism, national expansion, trade policies, Jewish
rights, sovereignty in the Americas, and scientific exploration.
Through analysis of a wide collection of writings-from religious
texts to novels-Fenton sheds light on a rarely explored but
important part of religious discourse in early America. As the
Hebraic Indian theory evolved over the course of two centuries, it
revealed how religious belief and national interest intersected in
early American history.
Shortly before her fortieth birthday, Molly, receives a letter from
a daughter she had given up for adoption when she was a teenager.
At a point in her life where Molly needs to find answers about her
own identity, she sets out across the country to meet her estranged
daughter on Ridgeport Island, a small island in Maine. A future
beyond any of Molly's expectations waits for her discovery if only
she can unlock the door she had closed on her past. The daughter,
Electra, offers Molly that key, and a local bachelor helps her to
use it, opening her heart to the possibilities.
In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, U.S. literary and
cultural productions often presented Catholicism not only as a
threat to Protestantism but also as an enemy of democracy. Focusing
on representations of the Catholic as a political force, Elizabeth
Fenton argues that U.S. understandings of religious freedom grew
partly, and paradoxically, out of a virulent anti-Catholicism.
Depictions of Catholicism's imagined intolerance and cruelty
allowed U.S. writers time and again to depict their nation as
tolerant and free. As Religious Liberties shows, anti-Catholicism
particularly shaped U.S. conceptions of pluralism and its
relationship to issues as diverse as religious privacy, territorial
expansion, female citizenship, political representation, chattel
slavery, and governmental partisanship. Religious Liberties
examines a wide range of materials-from the Federalist Papers to
antebellum biographies of Toussaint Louverture; from nativist
treatises to Margaret Fuller's journalism; from convent exposes to
novels by Charles Brockden Brown, Catharine Sedgwick, Augusta J.
Evans, Nathanial Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville,
Henry Adams, and Mark Twain-to excavate anti-Catholicism's
influence on both the liberal tradition and early U.S. culture. In
concert, these texts reveal that Anti-Catholicism facilitated an
alignment of U.S. nationalism with Protestantism. Religious
Liberties shows that this alignment ultimately has ensured the
mutual dependence, rather than the "separation " we so often take
for granted, of church and state.
Penned in the 1820s but not published until 1901, Fenton's Journal
is an intimate portrait of the lives of European expatriates in the
early decades of the nineteenth century. Written by a witness to
the heyday of Empire, but read by those who were soon to experience
its decline, Fenton's diary leads readers from Calcutta to
Tasmania. The focus is domestic and relates 'a familiar picture of
the everyday occurrences, manners and habits of life of persons
undistinguished either by wealth or fame', but it is this
informality that makes Fenton's account especially engaging. The
reader remains with the author intermittently until her return to
the family's English home. Together, her contrasting accounts of
exotic foreign lands and the 'dull and downright reality' of
Britain provide a rare insight into the life of an adventurous
woman. For more information on this author, see http:
//orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=fentel
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