Gale L Kenny
Biographic Data
| ID | 1694974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gale L Kenny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gale L |
| FAMILY NAME | Kenny |
| SIGNATURE | KENNY G L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barnard College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rodney Hessinger. Smitten
Baptizing Burma
Mission, Race, and Empire
Evangelical Internationalists and Human Rights
In 2019 U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched the Commission on Unalienable Rights, a council charged with defining human rights for U.S. foreign policymakers grounded in the founding documents of the United States. Few were surprised with the resulting emphasis on religious freedom and property rights, as announced by Pompeo in a 2020 speech. In the past several years, scholars of religious studies, historians, and political scientists ha…
Church, State, and 'Native Liberty' in the Belgian Congo
This essay describes a religious freedom controversy that developed between the world wars in the Belgian colony of the Congo, where Protestant missionaries complained that Catholic priests were abusing Congolese Protestants and that the Belgian government favored the Catholics. The history of this campaign demonstrates how humanitarian discourses of religious freedom-and with them competing configurations of church and state-took shape in coloni…
Tropical Freedom
In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka offers a trenchant reinterpretation of British and American emancipations and black emigration. Asaka brings American studies critical theories of racialization, mobility, and settler colonialism to this transnational history of how emancipation spurred a geographical and climate-based racial essentialism. Asaka traces the genealogy of what she terms “tropical black freedom,” the idea that people of African descent…
The World Day of Prayer
Between World War I and World War II, the World Day of Prayer (WDP) expressed Protestant women's Christian cosmopolitanism that combined rituals of prayer with a liberal program of social activism and humanitarianism. The WDP began as a way to unite Protestant women together across organizational denominational lines as women's missionary societies entered a period of decline in the 1920s. The WDP raised awareness of home and foreign missionary w…
Freedom's Seekers
Journal Article Freedom's Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation Get access Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013. xxvi, 229 pp. $39.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1229–1230, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav079 Published: 01 March 2015
Contentious Liberties
The Oberlin College to Jamaica, begun in the 1830s, was an ambitious, and ultimately troubled, effort to use the example of emancipation in the British West Indies to advance the domestic agenda of American abolitionists. White Americans hoped to argue that American slaves, once freed, could be absorbed productively into the society that had previously enslaved them, but their civilizing mission did not go as anticipated. Gale L. Kenny's illumina…
Reconstructing a Different South
After British emancipation, a group of American abolitionists initiated a Christian mission to emancipated people in Jamaica, later to be adopted by the American Missionary Association (AMA). Using books and letters written by Americans in Jamaica, this article traces the evolution of evangelical abolitionists' views of emancipation between the 1830s and the 1850s. I argue that the Jamaica Mission taught its parent organisation, the AMA, to value…
Tropical Freedom
In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka offers a trenchant reinterpretation of British and American emancipations and black emigration. Asaka brings American studies critical theories of racialization, mobility, and settler colonialism to this transnational history of how emancipation spurred a geographical and climate-based racial essentialism. Asaka traces the genealogy of what she terms “tropical black freedom,” the idea that people of African descent…
Freedom's Seekers
Journal Article Freedom's Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation Get access Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013. xxvi, 229 pp. $39.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1229–1230, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav079 Published: 01 March 2015
Reconstructing a Different South
After British emancipation, a group of American abolitionists initiated a Christian mission to emancipated people in Jamaica, later to be adopted by the American Missionary Association (AMA). Using books and letters written by Americans in Jamaica, this article traces the evolution of evangelical abolitionists' views of emancipation between the 1830s and the 1850s. I argue that the Jamaica Mission taught its parent organisation, the AMA, to value…
Contentious Liberties
The Oberlin College to Jamaica, begun in the 1830s, was an ambitious, and ultimately troubled, effort to use the example of emancipation in the British West Indies to advance the domestic agenda of American abolitionists. White Americans hoped to argue that American slaves, once freed, could be absorbed productively into the society that had previously enslaved them, but their civilizing mission did not go as anticipated. Gale L. Kenny's illumina…
Freedom's Seekers
Journal Article Freedom's Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation Get access Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013. xxvi, 229 pp. $39.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1229–1230, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav079 Published: 01 March 2015
The World Day of Prayer
Between World War I and World War II, the World Day of Prayer (WDP) expressed Protestant women's Christian cosmopolitanism that combined rituals of prayer with a liberal program of social activism and humanitarianism. The WDP began as a way to unite Protestant women together across organizational denominational lines as women's missionary societies entered a period of decline in the 1920s. The WDP raised awareness of home and foreign missionary w…
Tropical Freedom
In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka offers a trenchant reinterpretation of British and American emancipations and black emigration. Asaka brings American studies critical theories of racialization, mobility, and settler colonialism to this transnational history of how emancipation spurred a geographical and climate-based racial essentialism. Asaka traces the genealogy of what she terms “tropical black freedom,” the idea that people of African descent…
Church, State, and 'Native Liberty' in the Belgian Congo
This essay describes a religious freedom controversy that developed between the world wars in the Belgian colony of the Congo, where Protestant missionaries complained that Catholic priests were abusing Congolese Protestants and that the Belgian government favored the Catholics. The history of this campaign demonstrates how humanitarian discourses of religious freedom-and with them competing configurations of church and state-took shape in coloni…
Evangelical Internationalists and Human Rights
In 2019 U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched the Commission on Unalienable Rights, a council charged with defining human rights for U.S. foreign policymakers grounded in the founding documents of the United States. Few were surprised with the resulting emphasis on religious freedom and property rights, as announced by Pompeo in a 2020 speech. In the past several years, scholars of religious studies, historians, and political scientists ha…
Baptizing Burma
Mission, Race, and Empire
Rodney Hessinger. Smitten
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Emancipation (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)