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Moral Geography : Maps, Missionaries, and the American Frontier.
Title:
Moral Geography : Maps, Missionaries, and the American Frontier.
Author:
DeRogatis, Amy.
ISBN:
9780231508599
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (202 pages)
Series:
Religion and American Culture
Contents:
Half title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 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 Connecticut Missionary Society: Missionizing -- "Sprightly towns" and "numerous churches which gem the whole landscape": Spatial Nostalgia -- "The most benevolent designs": Missionary Publications -- Chapter 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 -- "Book knowledge is not all": The Heart, Not the Head -- "Born and raised in the woods": Homegrown Missionaries -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 4. Geography Made Easy: Geographies and Travel Literature -- Geography Made Easy: Mapping and Moralizing -- Domestic Travel Narratives -- Fairy-Tale Reports: Western Reserve Travel Literature -- A Correct View: New Connecticut as the Promised Land -- Chapter 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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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