Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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Mormon Studies Review

Sarah Dees

Keywords

Native Americans, evangelical Christian, visual culture, racialized groups, salvation

Abstract

In Messianic Fulfillments: Staging Indigenous Salvation in America, art historian Hayes Peter Mauro analyzes images of Native Americans and non-Natives produced within the context of evangelical Christian movements in the United States. While some of the images he examines are what we would usually define as “art”—visual works created by artists for aesthetic purposes—he considers other examples of visual culture as well, including historical and scientific illustrations, photographs, and images found in government documents, forty-six of which are reproduced in the text. These images share a common theme: they depict different categories of people—of (Native) American, European, and African descent—and they explicitly or tacitly convey some sort of meaning about the value of different racialized groups or the relationships among these groups.

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