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Heathen

Religion and Race in American History

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$35.00 • £30.95 • €31.95

ISBN 9780674976771

Publication Date: 05/17/2022

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368 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

30 photos

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  • A Note on Terms
  • Prologue: Returning the Gaze
  • Introduction: A Heathen Inheritance
  • I. Imagining the Heathen World
    • 1. Precedents
    • 2. Origin Stories
    • 3. Landscapes
    • 4. Bodies
  • II. The Body Politic
    • 5. Barometer
    • 6. Exclusion
    • 7. Inclusion
  • III. Inheritances
    • 8. Preservation and Pushback
    • 9. Resonances
    • 10. Continuing Counterscripts
  • Epilogue: “The Aforesaid Heathen Peoples”
  • Postscript: The More Things Change…
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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