Native Americans, Christianity, and the reshaping of the American religious landscape / edited by Joel W. Martin and Mark A. Nicholas ; foreword by Michelene Pesantubbee.

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Other Authors: Martin, Joel W., 1956- (Editor), Nicholas, Mark A. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010], ©2010.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Missions > History.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Religion.
Missionaries > United States > History.
Christianity and culture > United States > History.
Physical Description:xiii, 325 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Hard feelings: Samson Occom contemplates his Christian mentors / Joanna Brooks
  • Eager partners in reform: Indians and Frederick Baylies in southern New England, 1780-1840 / Daniel Mandell
  • Crisscrossing projects of sovereignty and conversion: Cherokee Christians and New England missionaries during the 1820s / Joel W. Martin
  • Native American popular religion in New England's Old Colony, 1670-1770 / Douglas L. Winiarski
  • Blood, fire, and "baptism": three perspectives on the death of Jean de Brébeuf, seventeenth-century Jesuit "martyr" / Emma Anderson
  • The Catholic rosary, gendered practice, and female power in French-Indian spiritual encounters / Tracy Neal Leavelle
  • The souls of Highlanders, the salvation of Indians: Scottish mission and eighteenth-century British empire / Laura M. Stevens
  • Print culture and the power of native literacy in California and New England missions / Steven W. Hackel and Hilary E. Wyss
  • Hendrick Aupaumut: Christian-Mahican prophet / Rachel Wheeler
  • To become a chosen people: the missionary work and missionary spirit of the Brotherton and Stockbridge Indians, 1775-1835 / David J. Silverman
  • Conclusion: turns and common grounds / Mark A. Nicholas
  • Coda: naming the legacy of native Christian missionary encounters / Michael D. McNally.