Native Americans, Christianity, and the reshaping of the American religious landscape
By: edited by Joel W. Martin and Mark A. Nicholas ; foreword by Michelene Pesantubbee.
Contributors: Martin, Joel W., 1956-; Nicholas, Mark A.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; Univ of North Carolina Pr; Brand: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780807834060; 9780807871454
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Missions -- History; Indians of North America -- Religion; Missionaries -- United States -- History; Christianity and culture -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hard feelings : Samsom Occom contemplates his Christian mentors / Joanna Brooks; title: Eager partners in reform : Indians and Frederick Baylies in Southern New England, 1780-1840   Daniel Mandell; title: Crisscrossing Projects of Sovereignty and conversion : Cherokee Christians and New England missionaries during the 1820s / Joel W. Martin; title: Native American popular religion in New England's Old Colony, 1670-1770 / Douglas L. Winiarski; title: Blood, fire, and "baptism" : three perspectives on the death of Jean de Brebeuf, seventeenth-century Jesuit "martyr" / Emma Anderson; title: The Catholic rosary, gendered practice, and female power in French-Indian spiritual encounters / Tracy Neal Leavelle; title: The souls of Highlanders, the salvation of Indians : Scottish mission and eighteenth-century British empire / Laura M. Stevens; title: Print culture and the power of native literacy in California and New England Missions / Steven W. Hackel and Hilary E. Wyss; title: Hendrick Aupaumut : Christian-Mahican prophet / Rachel Wheeler; title: To become a chosen people : the missionary work and missionary spirit of the Brotherton and Stockbridge Indians, 1775-1835 / David J. Silverman; title: Conclusion : turns and common grounds / Mark A. Nicholas; title: Coda : naming the legacy of native Christian missionary encounters / Michael D. McNally