Description
Book SynopsisExamines the role of Christian evangelical movements in shaping American identity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Focusing on Christianity's fervent pursuit of Native American salvation, Hayes Peter Mauro discusses Anglo American artists influenced by Christian millenarianism, natural history, and racial science in America.
Trade Review“With numerous illustrations
Messianic Fulfillments offers an important contribution to art history with interpretations of paintings and images of Native peoples and other ‘subaltern groups.’ It examines the vicissitudes of ideas and artistic renderings about race from colonial America to the present as presented in the epilogue. Mauro’s writing style will engage general readers, undergraduates, and more advanced scholars alike.”—Julius H. Rubin, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Saint Joseph
“The subject of how evangelical notions of ‘Otherness,’ race, American national identity, and evangelical Christianity are woven throughout American culture and history, and how visual representations of these notions are deployed to further their wider cultural adoption, is very important, especially so given the current political climate.
Messianic Fulfillments makes a substantial contribution to the fields of race, religion, and American history and studies and also contributes to work in visual and material religious culture.”—Jennifer Snead, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Puritanism and Fidelity
2. Quakerism, Skulls, and Sanctity
3. Mormonism, Light and Dark
4. The Social Gospel, Christ’s Kingdom on Earth
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
