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EBOOK Indian Great Awakening:Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199930760
EAN: 6463461CEB
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Stron: 312
Data wydania: 2012
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The First Great Awakening was a time of heightened religious activity in the        colonial New England. Among those whom the English settlers tried to convert to        Christianity were the region's native peoples. In this book, Linford Fisher tells        the gripping story of American Indians' attempts to wrestle with the ongoing        realities of colonialism between the 1670s and 1820. In particular, he looks at how        some members of previously unevangelized Indian communities in Connecticut, Rhode        Island, western Massachusetts, and Long Island adopted Christian practices, often        joining local Congregational churches and receiving baptism. Far from passively        sliding into the cultural and physical landscape after King Philip's War, he argues,        Native individuals and communities actively tapped into transatlantic structures of        power to protect their land rights, welcomed educational opportunities for their        children, and joined local white churches. Religion repeatedly stood at the center        of these points of cultural engagement, often in hotly contested ways. Although        these Native groups had successfully resisted evangelization in the seventeenth        century, by the eighteenth century they showed an increasing interest in education        and religion. Their sporadic participation in the First Great Awakening marked a        continuation of prior forms of cultural engagement. More surprisingly, however, in        the decades after the Awakening, Native individuals and sub-groups asserted their        religious and cultural autonomy to even greater degrees by leaving English churches        and forming their own Indian Separate churches. In the realm of education, too,        Natives increasingly took control, preferring local reservation schools and        demanding Indian teachers whenever possible. In the 1780s, two small groups of        Christian Indians moved to New York and founded new Christian Indian settlements.          But the majority of New England Natives-even those who affiliated with        Christianity-chose to remain in New England, continuing to assert their own        autonomous existence through leasing land, farming, and working on and off the        reservations.While Indian involvement in the Great Awakening has often been seen as        total and complete conversion, Fisher's analysis of church records, court documents,        and correspondence reveals a more complex reality. Placing the Awakening in context        of land loss and the ongoing struggle for cultural autonomy in the eighteenth        century casts it as another step in the ongoing, tentative engagement of native        peoples with Christian ideas and institutions in the colonial world. Charting this        untold story of the Great Awakening and the resultant rise of an Indian Separatism        and its effects on Indian cultures as a whole, this gracefully written book        challenges long-held notions about religion and Native-Anglo-American        interaction

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