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Tears of repentance : Christian Indian identity and community in Colonial southern New England / Julius H. Rubin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 405 pages) : illustrations, tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780803245679
  • 080324567X
  • 129955945X
  • 9781299559455
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 299.7 299.7974 22
LOC classification:
  • E78 .N5 R84 2013
  • E78.N5 R83 2013e
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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.
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)577655

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

Print version record.

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.