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Tears of repentance : Christian Indian identity and community in Colonial southern New England /

This book 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 goal...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rubin, Julius H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Praying towns and praying-to-God Indians
  • The penitential sense of life
  • The pattern of religious paternalism in eighteenth-century Christian Indian communities
  • Samson Occom and evangelical Christian Indian identity
  • The Stockbridge and New Jersey Brotherton tribes
  • The Moravian missions to Shekomeko and Pachgatgoch
  • Errand into the Borderlands
  • Frontier rendezvous
  • Appendix A : Religion and Red power
  • Appendix B : A note on Indiantowns.