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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Tracts Relating to the Attempts to Convert to Christianity the Indians of New England
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Dry Bones and Indian Sermons
Author: Kristina BrossPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801489389
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Native converts to Christianity, dubbed "praying Indians" by seventeenth-century English missionaries, have long been imagined as benign cultural intermediaries between English settlers and "savages." More recently, praying Indians have been dismissed as virtual inventions of the colonists: "good" Indians used to justify mistreatment of "bad" ones. In a new consideration of this religious encounter, Kristina Bross argues that colonists used depictions of praying Indians to create a vitally important role for themselves as messengers on an evangelical "errand into the wilderness" that promised divine significance not only for the colonists who had embarked on the errand, but also for their metropolitan sponsors in London.In Dry Bones and Indian Sermons, Bross traces the response to events such as the English civil wars and Restoration, New England's Antinomian Controversy, and "King Philip's" war. Whatever the figure's significance to English settlers, praying Indians such as Waban and Samuel Ponampam used their Christian identity to push for status and meaning in the colonial order. Through her focused attention to early evangelical literature and to that literature's historical and cultural contexts, Bross demonstrates how the people who inhabited, manipulated, and consumed the praying Indian identity found ways to use it for their own, disparate purposes.
Empires of God
Author: Linda GregersonPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081220882X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Religion and empire were inseparable forces in the early modern Atlantic world. Religious passions and conflicts drove much of the expansionist energy of post-Reformation Europe, providing both a rationale and a practical mode of organizing the dispersal and resettlement of hundreds of thousands of people from the Old World to the New World. Exhortations to conquer new peoples were the lingua franca of Western imperialism, and men like the mystically inclined Christopher Columbus were genuinely inspired to risk their lives and their fortunes to bring the gospel to the Americas. And in the thousands of religious refugees seeking asylum from the vicious wars of religion that tore the continent apart in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, these visionary explorers found a ready pool of migrants—English Puritans and Quakers, French Huguenots, German Moravians, Scots-Irish Presbyterians—equally willing to risk life and limb for a chance to worship God in their own way. Focusing on the formative period of European exploration, settlement, and conquest in the Americas, from roughly 1500 to 1760, Empires of God brings together historians and literary scholars of the English, French, and Spanish Americas around a common set of questions: How did religious communities and beliefs create empires, and how did imperial structures transform New World religions? How did Europeans and Native Americans make sense of each other's spiritual systems, and what acts of linguistic and cultural transition did this entail? What was the role of violence in New World religious encounters? Together, the essays collected here demonstrate the power of religious ideas and narratives to create kingdoms both imagined and real.
British Identities and English Renaissance Literature
Author: David J. BakerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521782005
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In this 2002 volume, scholars examine the role of literature in the construction of 'Britishness'.
Objects of Devotion
Author: Peter ManseauPublisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588345920
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Objects of Devotion: Religion in Early America tells the story of religion in the United States through the material culture of diverse spiritual pursuits in the nation's colonial period and the early republic. The beautiful, full-color companion volume to a Smithsonian National Museum of American History exhibition, the book explores the wide range of religious traditions vying for adherents, acceptance, and a prominent place in the public square from the 1630s to the 1840s. The original thirteen states were home to approximately three thousand churches and more than a dozen Christian denominations, including Anglicans, Baptists, Catholics, Congregationalists, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, and Quakers. A variety of other faiths also could be found, including Judaism, Islam, traditional African practices, and Native American beliefs. As a result, America became known throughout the world as a place where, in theory, if not always in practice, all are free to believe and worship as they choose. The featured objects include an 1814 Revere and Sons church bell from Salem, the Jefferson Bible, wampum beads, a 1654 Torah scroll brought to the New World, the only known religious text written by an enslaved African Muslim, and other revelatory artifacts. Together these treasures illustrate how religious ideas have shaped the country and how the treatment and practice of religion have changed over time. Objects of Devotion emphasizes how religion can be understood through the objects, both rare and everyday, around which Americans of every generation have organized their communities and built this nation.
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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For the statement above quoted, also for full bibliographical information regarding this publication, and for the contents of the volumes [1st ser.] v. 1- 7th series, v. 5, cf. Griffin, Bibl. of Amer. hist. society. 2d edition, 1907, p. 346-360.
Tears of Repentance, Or, A Further Narrative of the Progress of the Gospel Amongst the Indians in New-England: Setting Forth, Not Only Their Present State and Condition, But Sundry Confessions of Sin by Diverse of the Said Indians, Wrought Upon by the Saving Power of the Gospel, Together with the Manifestation of Their Faith and Hope in Jesus Christ, and the Work of Grace Upon Their Hearts
Author: John EliotPublisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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House documents
Author: Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
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Bibliography of American Historical Societies
Author: Appleton Prentiss Clark GriffinPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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