Salvation and the Savage : An Analysis of Protestant Missions and American Indian Response, 1787-1862 /

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The great, pre-Civil War attempt of Protestant missionaries to Christianize Native Americans is found by Robert F. Berkofer, Jr. to be a significant point of contact with enduring lessons for American thought. The irony displayed by this relationship, he says, did not really lie in the disparity bet...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Berkhofer, Robert F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Protestant churches > Missions.
Missions.
Indians of North America > Missions.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Églises protestantes > Missions > Histoire.
Protestant churches > Missions > History.
Missions > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The great, pre-Civil War attempt of Protestant missionaries to Christianize Native Americans is found by Robert F. Berkofer, Jr. to be a significant point of contact with enduring lessons for American thought. The irony displayed by this relationship, he says, did not really lie in the disparity between Anglo-Saxon ideals and the actual treatment of first peoples but in the failure of all, including the missions, to see that both sides had ultimately behaved according to their cultural values. Using the records of missions to sixteen tribes in various regions of the United States, Berkofer has.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (200 pages).
ISBN:9780813162102

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