Missionaries to the Wilderness
A History of Land, Identity, and Moral Geography in Appalachia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22312875 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jill M Fraley (Washington and Lee University, corresponding author), Jill Fraley |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 28-41 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Appalachian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1082-7161 • E-ISSN: 2328-8612 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/41446933 |
| OpenAlex | W1186626406 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 5 |
This article revisits the relationship between missionaries and Appalachian stereotypes, bringing to the discussion new developments in geographical theory and the intellectual history of ideas of wilderness. The article argues that missionary activities during the early twentieth century are best understood through their beliefs about wilderness and particularly about the moral climate of man within it. In this way the missionaries also contributed to the process of intermingling ideas about the land and the people and thereby contributed to the formation of a quasi-ethnic regional identity in the American public consciousness—and also substantially changed Appalachia by applying a set of hierarchical land values that stemmed from ideas about wilderness
Aesthetics · Appalachia · Appalachian Region · Environmental ethics · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Geography · Sociology · Wilderness · American Environmental and Regional History · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Ecology
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |