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Native Americans, Christianity, and the reshaping of the American religious landscape /

"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 people's engagement with Christianity and with Euro-American...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Martin, Joel W., 1956- (Editor ), Nicholas, Mark A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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 1820s / Joel W. Martin
  • 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 Brébeuf, seventeenth-century Jesuit "martyr" / Emma Anderson
  • The Catholic rosary, gendered practice, and female power in French-Indian spiritual encounters / Tracy Neal Leavelle
  • 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
  • Hendrick Aupaumut : Christian-Mahican prophet / Rachel Wheeler
  • To become a chosen people : the missionary work and missionary spirit of the 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.