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Rubin, Julius H., 1948-

Tears of repentance : Christian Indian identity and community in Colonial southern New England / Julius H. Rubin. - 1 online resource (xiii, 405 pages) : illustrations, tables

Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-381) and index.

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.

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 goals among the Native communities they served and of the religion as lived, experienced, and practiced among Christianized Indians, the author offers a means of understanding the motives and motivations of those who lived in New England's early Christianized Indian village communities.

ISBN: 9780803245679 080324567X 129955945X 9781299559455

Source: 487195 MIL 22573/ctt1ddq14r JSTOR

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1600-1775

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Indians of North America--Religion.--New England
Indians of North America--Missions--New England.
Indians of North America--Ethnic identity.--New England
Christianity and other religions--New England.
Christianity and culture--History.--New England
Evangelistic work--History.--New England
Indians of North America--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Peuples autochtones--Religion.--Nouvelle-Angleterre
Peuples autochtones--Identité ethnique.--Nouvelle-Angleterre
Christianisme--Relations--Nouvelle-Angleterre.
Christianisme et civilisation--Histoire.--Nouvelle-Angleterre
Évangélisation--Histoire.--Nouvelle-Angleterre
Peuples autochtones--Histoire--États-Unis--ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT--Spirituality--Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Ethnic Studies--Native American Studies.
Christianity
Christianity and culture
Evangelistic work
Indians of North America--Colonial period
Indians of North America--Ethnic identity
Indians of North America--Missions
Indians of North America--Religion
Interfaith relations

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Nouvelle-Angleterre--Histoire--ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
New England

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
History

LC Class. No.: E78 .N5 R84 2013 E78.N5 / R83 2013e

Dewey Class. No.: 299.7 299.7974