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



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Autore: Rubin Julius H Visualizza persona
Titolo: Tears of repentance [[electronic resource]] : Christian Indian identity and community in colonial southern New England / / Julius H. Rubin Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lincoln, Neb. ; ; London, : University of Nebraska Press, c2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (422 p.)
Disciplina: 299.7/974
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: New England History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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
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ISBN: 0-8032-4567-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910463738803321
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