Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape

Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 12
Introduction......Page 20
PART I: NEGOTIATING CONVERSION......Page 40
Hard Feelings: Samson Occom Contemplates His Christian Mentors......Page 42
Eager Partners in Reform: Indians and Frederick Baylies in Southern New England, 1780–1840......Page 57
Crisscrossing Projects of Sovereignty and Conversion: Cherokee Christians and New England Missionaries during the 1820s......Page 86
PART II: PRACTICING RELIGION......Page 110
Native American Popular Religion in New England’s Old Colony, 1670–1770......Page 112
Blood, Fire, and “Baptism”: Three Perspectives on the Death of Jean de Brébeuf, Seventeenth-Century Jesuit “Martyr”......Page 144
The Catholic Rosary, Gendered Practice, and Female Power in French-Indian Spiritual Encounters......Page 178
PART III: CIRCULATING TEXTS......Page 196
The Souls of Highlanders, the Salvation of Indians: Scottish Mission and Eighteenth-Century British Empire......Page 198
Print Culture and the Power of Native Literacy in California and New England Missions......Page 220
PART IV: CREATING COMMUNITIES......Page 242
Hendrick Aupaumut: Christian-Mahican Prophet......Page 244
To Become a Chosen People: The Missionary Work and Missionary Spirit of the Brotherton and Stockbridge Indians, 1775–1835......Page 269
Conclusion: Turns and Common Grounds......Page 295
Coda: Naming the Legacy of Native Christian Missionary Encounters......Page 308
Contributors......Page 324
A......Page 328
B......Page 329
C......Page 330
E......Page 332
G......Page 333
I......Page 334
L......Page 335
M......Page 336
N......Page 337
P......Page 340
R......Page 341
S......Page 342
W......Page 343