Crisis of Care: Religion and Empire in the American West Since 1848

As the United States expanded westward during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, religion played a key role in US imperial desires—whether a particular religious tradition thwarted these desires, worked to uphold them, or fell somewhere in between. Illuminating how religious institutions, leaders, and practitioners tended to their communities in the face of land dispossession, settlement, and resettlement, Crisis of Care contends that training an eye on care—intentional attentiveness t...