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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463738803321

Autore

Rubin Julius H

Titolo

Tears of repentance [[electronic resource]] : Christian Indian identity and community in colonial southern New England / / Julius H. Rubin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, Neb. ; ; London, : University of Nebraska Press, c2013

ISBN

0-8032-4567-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (422 p.)

Disciplina

299.7/974

Soggetti

Indians of North America - New England - Religion

Indians of North America - Missions - New England

Indians of North America - New England - Ethnic identity

Christianity and culture - New England - History

Christianity and other religions - New England - History

Evangelism - New England - History

Indians of North America - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Electronic books.

New England History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction; 1. Praying Towns and Praying-to-God Indians; 2. The Penitential Sense of Life; 3. The Pattern of Religious Paternalism in Eighteenth-Century Christian Indian Communities; 4. Samson Occom and Evangelical Christian Indian Identity; 5. The Stockbridge and New Jersey Brotherton Tribes; 6. The Moravian Missions to Shekomeko and Pachgatgoch; 7. Errand into the Borderlands; 8. Frontier Rendezvous; Conclusion; Appendix A: Religion and Red Power; Appendix B: A Note on Indiantowns; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Tears of Repentance revisits and reexamines the familiar stories of intercultural encounters between Protestant missionaries and Native peoples in southern New England from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Focusing on Protestant missionaries' accounts of their ideals, purposes, and goals among the Native communities they



served and of the religion as lived, experienced, and practiced among Christianized Indians, Julius H. Rubin offers a new way of understanding the motives and motivations of those who lived in New England's early Christianized Indian village communi