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"For the good of their souls" : performing Christianity in eighteenth-century Mohawk country /
"In 1712, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts opened their mission near present-day Albany, New York, and began baptizing residents of the nearby Mohawk village Tiononderoge, the easternmost nation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy. Within three years, about...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Native Americans of the Northeast.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Series
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Mohawk Beliefs and the Needs of the Soul
- Chapter 1. "Dwindl'd to Nothing Almost"
- The Mohawks and Their World at 1700
- Chapter 2. "Ordering the Life and Manners of a Numerous People"
- The Ideology and Performances of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
- Chapter 3. "Laying a Good and Lasting Foundation of Religion"
- Success and Failure at the Fort Hunter Mission, 1710-1719
- Chapter 4. Mohawk Schoolmasters and Catechists
- Literacy, Authority, and Empowerment at Midcentury
- Chapter 5. "A Single Mission in the Old, Beaten Way Makes No Noise"
- New Strategies for Capturing Mohawk Bodies and Souls, 1760-1775
- Chapter 6. "As Formerly under Their Respective Chiefs"
- The Mohawk Diaspora into Upper Canada, 1784-1810
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover