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UNINA9910818178903321 |
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Titolo |
Native Americans, Christianity, and the reshaping of the American religious landscape / / edited by Joel W. Martin and Mark A. Nicholas; foreword by Michelene Pesantubbee |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0631-3 |
0-8078-9966-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (344 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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MartinJoel W. <1956-> |
NicholasMark A |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Indians of North America - Missions - History |
Indians of North America - Religion |
Missionaries - United States - History |
Christianity and culture - United States - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Negotiating conversion. Hard feelings : Samson Occom contemplates his Christian mentors / Joanna Brooks. Eager partners in reform : Indians and Frederick Baylies in southern New England, 1780-1840 / Daniel Mandell. Crisscrossing projects of sovereignty and conversion : Cherokee Christians and New England missionaries during the 1820's / Joel W. Martin -- Practicing religion. Native American popular religion in New England's Old Colony, 1670-1770 / Douglas L. Winiarski. Blood, fire, and "baptism" : three perspectives on the death of Jean de Brebeuf, seventeenth-century Jesuit "martyr" / Emma Anderson. The Catholic rosary, gendered practice, and female power in French-Indian spiritual encounters / Tracy Neal Leavelle -- Circulating texts. The souls of Highlanders, the salvation of Indians : Scottish mission and eighteenth-century British empire / Laura M. Stevens. Print culture and the power of native literacy in California and New England missions / Steven W. Hackel and Hilary E. Wyss -- Creating communities. Hendrick Aupaumut : Christian-Mahican prophet / Rachel Wheeler. To become a chosen people : the missionary work and missionary spirit of the |
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Brotherton and Stockbridge Indians, 1775-1835 / David J. Silverman. Conclusion : turns and common grounds / Mark A. Nicholas. Coda : naming the legacy of native Christian missionary encounters / Michael D. McNally. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, Joel W. Martin and Mark A. Nicholas gather emerging and leading voices in the study of Native American religion to reconsider the complex and often misunderstood history of Native peoples' engagement with Christianity and with Euro-American missionaries. Surveying mission encounters from contact through the mid-nineteenth century, the volume alters and enriches our understanding of both American Christianity and indigenous religion. The essays here explore a variety of postcontact identities, including indigenous Christians, ""mission |
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