Tears of repentance : Christian Indian identity and community in colonial southern New England / / Julius H. Rubin
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| Autore: |
Rubin Julius H
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| Titolo: |
Tears of repentance : Christian Indian identity and community in colonial southern New England / / Julius H. Rubin
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| Pubblicazione: | Lincoln, Neb. ; ; London, : University of Nebraska Press, c2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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 | |
| Evangelistic work - New England - History | |
| Indians of North America - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | New England History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Tears of repentance |
| ISBN: | 1-4962-1154-5 |
| 0-8032-4567-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815226503321 |
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