Title: Pilgrim "others" : reclaiming the agency and identity of women, negroes and Indians in Puritan Massachusetts /
Authors: Staples, Julie Johnson.
Year: 2012
Subjects: Church and minorities Massachusetts History.; Massachusetts Religious life and customs; Massachusetts History; Massachusetts Church history; Massachusetts Church history
Abstract: "This paper argues that colonists had inter-racial, multi-cultural liturgical experiences from the earliest beginnings of American religous life. Select examples form colonial churches across the Commonwealth--representing urban, suburban and rural congregations--show that women and Negroes and Indians, irrespective of gender, were involved in numerous aspects of the church as measured by admission, baptism, communion and marriage."--p. 2.