Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850-1924

Focusing on the interplay between Asian rights and Christian idealism, the book explores how missionaries crafted a nuanced theology of race as a response to scientific racism. This theological development not only anticipated modern multicultural ideologies but also culminated in the support of liberal Protestantism for civil rights movements in the 1960s, highlighting a significant evolution in religious and social thought.