Native Americans, Christianity, and the reshaping of the American religious landscape /
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| Imprint: | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010. |
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| Description: | xiii, 325 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8265938 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I. Negotiating Conversion
- Hard Feelings: Samson Occom Contemplates His Christian Mentors
- Eager Partners in Reform: Indians and Frederick Baylies in Southern New England, 1780-1840
- Crisscrossing Projects of Sovereignty and Conversion: Cherokee Christians and New England Missionaries during the 1820s
- Part II. Practicing Religion
- Native American Popular Religion in New England's Old Colony, 1670-1770
- Blood, Fire, and "Baptism": Three Perspectives on the Death of Jean de Brébeuf, Seventeenth-Century Jesuit "Martyr"
- The Catholic Rosary, Gendered Practice, and Female Power in French-Indian Spiritual Encounters
- Part III. Circulating Texts
- The Souls of Highlanders, the Salvation of Indians: Scottish Mission and Eighteenth-Century British Empire
- Print Culture and the Power of Native Literacy in California and New England Missions
- Part IV. Creating Communities
- Hendrick Aupaumut: Christian-Mahican Prophet
- To Become a Chosen People: The Missionary Work and Missionary Spirit of the Brotherton and Stockbridge Indians, 1775-1835
- Conclusion: Turns and Common Grounds
- Coda: Naming the Legacy of Native Christian Missionary Encounters
- Contributors
- Index
