Philip Schaff Prize, American Society of Church History
S-USIH Book Award, Society for U.S. Intellectual History
Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians
“A fascinating book…Gin Lum suggests that, in many times and places, the divide between Christian and ‘heathen’ was the central divide in American life.”—Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker
“Offers a dazzling range of examples to substantiate its thesis. Rare is the reader who could dip into it without becoming much better informed on a great many topics historical, literary, and religious. So many of Gin Lum’s examples are enlightening and informative in their own right.”—Philip Jenkins, Christian Century
“Brilliant…Gin Lum’s writing style is nuanced, clear, detailed yet expansive, and accessible, which will make the book a fit for both graduate and undergraduate classrooms. Any scholar of American history should have a copy.” —Emily Suzanne Clark, S-USIH: Society for U.S. Intellectual History
In this sweeping historical narrative, Kathryn Gin Lum shows how the idea of the heathen has been maintained from the colonial era to the present in religious and secular discourses—discourses, specifically, of race.
Americans long viewed the world as a realm of suffering heathens whose lands and lives needed their intervention to flourish. The term “heathen” fell out of common use by the early 1900s, leading some to imagine that racial categories had replaced religious differences. But the ideas underlying the figure of the heathen did not disappear. Americans still treat large swaths of the world as “other” due to their assumed need for conversion to American ways.
Race continues to operate as a heathen inheritance in the United States, animating Americans’ sense of being a world apart from an undifferentiated mass of needy, suffering peoples. Heathen thus reveals a key source of American exceptionalism and a prism through which Americans have defined themselves as a progressive and humanitarian nation even as supposed heathens have drawn on the same to counter this national myth.
"A fascinating book…Gin Lum suggests that, in many times and places, the divide between Christian and ‘heathen’ was the central divide in American life." - New Yorker
"A powerful and important book. Lum writes elegantly and passionately, with both scholarly acumen and personal insight…[this] masterful study pushes us to think deeply about these urgent questions…[and] serves as an important reminder of the value of writing broad narratives." - Journal of the American Academy of Religion
"Offers a dazzling range of examples to substantiate its thesis. Rare is the reader who could dip into it without becoming much better informed on a great many topics historical, literary, and religious. So many of Gin Lum’s examples are enlightening and informative in their own right." - Christian Century
"Nuanced and illuminating…Ranging from King Philip’s War in 17th-century New England to ‘anti-Asian hate’ during the Covid-19 pandemic, Gin Lum sheds light on a troubling yet overlooked aspect of U.S. religious history and issues a powerful call for change. Readers will gain new insight into the roots of ‘White Protestant American’ exceptionalism." - Publishers Weekly
"Brilliant…Gin Lum’s writing style is nuanced, clear, detailed yet expansive, and accessible, which will make the book a fit for both graduate and undergraduate classrooms. Any scholar of American history should have a copy." - S-USIH: Society for U.S. Intellectual History
"A story about religion but also about race, colonialism, empire and identity—particularly American identity. The concept of heathenism was used to rationalize the slaughter of indigenous people, the burning of ‘witches,’ the enslavement of Africans, the exclusion of Chinese immigrants, the abduction of Native American children, and the usurpation of U.S. territories’ and colonies’ right to self-rule." - Salon
"This is a fantastic book. In a sweeping history of religion and race in the United States, Kathryn Gin Lum’s Heathen offers an elegant narrative that succeeds as both archivally compelling revisionism and stunning synthesis…Indispensable reading for anyone seeking to understand either American religion or American racism." - New England Quarterly
"Expansive…As much as this book is about the historical underpinnings of religious colonialism, it is also about how the circulation of texts—in the form of ethnographic research, Western classics, religious propaganda, and scripture—give imaginative shape to worlds." - Englewood Review of Books
"Holds up…a harsh and timely mirror to Christians in the United States." - National Catholic Reporter
"Heathen presents the reality of the world we are living in today and the stories that formed it." - Sojourners
"[Gin Lum] tells a much larger story about the durability of cultural categories, the meaning of history, and the emergence of ideas of about racial difference, which she sees as intertwined with religious difference. As Gin Lum persuasively and provocatively argues in this book, ‘racial othering has been a “heathen inheritance.”’" - Anxious Bench
"A must read for anyone doing the work of deconstructing and decolonizing a Christianity known for its name-calling…In brilliant detail, [Gin] Lum shows the historical connection between paganism and Christianity…A timely resource for Christians who are seeking a version of Christianity that does not require cultural assimilation and that does not make excuses for a religion that employed and endorsed race as a means of othering." - Good Faith Media
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S-USIH Book Award, Society for U.S. Intellectual History
Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians
“A fascinating book…Gin Lum suggests that, in many times and places, the divide between Christian and ‘heathen’ was the central divide in American life.”—Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker
“Offers a dazzling range of examples to substantiate its thesis. Rare is the reader who could dip into it without becoming much better informed on a great many topics historical, literary, and religious. So many of Gin Lum’s examples are enlightening and informative in their own right.”—Philip Jenkins, Christian Century
“Brilliant…Gin Lum’s writing style is nuanced, clear, detailed yet expansive, and accessible, which will make the book a fit for both graduate and undergraduate classrooms. Any scholar of American history should have a copy.” —Emily Suzanne Clark, S-USIH: Society for U.S. Intellectual History
In this sweeping historical narrative, Kathryn Gin Lum shows how the idea of the heathen has been maintained from the colonial era to the present in religious and secular discourses—discourses, specifically, of race.
Americans long viewed the world as a realm of suffering heathens whose lands and lives needed their intervention to flourish. The term “heathen” fell out of common use by the early 1900s, leading some to imagine that racial categories had replaced religious differences. But the ideas underlying the figure of the heathen did not disappear. Americans still treat large swaths of the world as “other” due to their assumed need for conversion to American ways.
Race continues to operate as a heathen inheritance in the United States, animating Americans’ sense of being a world apart from an undifferentiated mass of needy, suffering peoples. Heathen thus reveals a key source of American exceptionalism and a prism through which Americans have defined themselves as a progressive and humanitarian nation even as supposed heathens have drawn on the same to counter this national myth.
"A fascinating book…Gin Lum suggests that, in many times and places, the divide between Christian and ‘heathen’ was the central divide in American life." - New Yorker
"A powerful and important book. Lum writes elegantly and passionately, with both scholarly acumen and personal insight…[this] masterful study pushes us to think deeply about these urgent questions…[and] serves as an important reminder of the value of writing broad narratives." - Journal of the American Academy of Religion
"Offers a dazzling range of examples to substantiate its thesis. Rare is the reader who could dip into it without becoming much better informed on a great many topics historical, literary, and religious. So many of Gin Lum’s examples are enlightening and informative in their own right." - Christian Century
"Nuanced and illuminating…Ranging from King Philip’s War in 17th-century New England to ‘anti-Asian hate’ during the Covid-19 pandemic, Gin Lum sheds light on a troubling yet overlooked aspect of U.S. religious history and issues a powerful call for change. Readers will gain new insight into the roots of ‘White Protestant American’ exceptionalism." - Publishers Weekly
"Brilliant…Gin Lum’s writing style is nuanced, clear, detailed yet expansive, and accessible, which will make the book a fit for both graduate and undergraduate classrooms. Any scholar of American history should have a copy." - S-USIH: Society for U.S. Intellectual History
"A story about religion but also about race, colonialism, empire and identity—particularly American identity. The concept of heathenism was used to rationalize the slaughter of indigenous people, the burning of ‘witches,’ the enslavement of Africans, the exclusion of Chinese immigrants, the abduction of Native American children, and the usurpation of U.S. territories’ and colonies’ right to self-rule." - Salon
"This is a fantastic book. In a sweeping history of religion and race in the United States, Kathryn Gin Lum’s Heathen offers an elegant narrative that succeeds as both archivally compelling revisionism and stunning synthesis…Indispensable reading for anyone seeking to understand either American religion or American racism." - New England Quarterly
"Expansive…As much as this book is about the historical underpinnings of religious colonialism, it is also about how the circulation of texts—in the form of ethnographic research, Western classics, religious propaganda, and scripture—give imaginative shape to worlds." - Englewood Review of Books
"Holds up…a harsh and timely mirror to Christians in the United States." - National Catholic Reporter
"Heathen presents the reality of the world we are living in today and the stories that formed it." - Sojourners
"[Gin Lum] tells a much larger story about the durability of cultural categories, the meaning of history, and the emergence of ideas of about racial difference, which she sees as intertwined with religious difference. As Gin Lum persuasively and provocatively argues in this book, ‘racial othering has been a “heathen inheritance.”’" - Anxious Bench
"A must read for anyone doing the work of deconstructing and decolonizing a Christianity known for its name-calling…In brilliant detail, [Gin] Lum shows the historical connection between paganism and Christianity…A timely resource for Christians who are seeking a version of Christianity that does not require cultural assimilation and that does not make excuses for a religion that employed and endorsed race as a means of othering." - Good Faith Media
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