Native Americans, Christianity, and the reshaping of the American religious landscape

Native Americans, Christianity, and the reshaping of the American religious landscape [electronic resource] / edited by Joel W. Martin and Mark A. Nicholas ; foreword by Michelene Pesantubbee. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (xiii, 325 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780807899663 (electronic bk.) 0807899666 (electronic bk.)


Indians of North America--Missions--History.
Indians of North America--Religion.
Missionaries--History.--United States
Christianity and culture--History.--United States


Electronic books.

E98.M6 / N38 2010eb

970.004/97