ISBN:
978-0-8122-2321-7
,
978-0-8122-4377-2
Language:
English
Pages:
255 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
Edition:
1. ed.
Series Statement:
Early American Studies
Keywords:
Nordamerika Illinois
;
Great Lakes Region
;
Indianer, Nordamerika
;
Algonkin
;
Christentum
;
Katholik
;
Konversion
;
Mission, christliche
;
Kolonialismus
;
Kolonie, französisch
;
Kolonie, italienisch
;
Beziehungen Indianer-Weiße
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Historian Tracy Neal Leavelle examines religious conversions in the upper Great Lakes and Illinois country in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries among the Illinois, Ottawas, and other Algonqiuan-speaking peoples and the rapidly evolving and always contested colonial context in which they occurred.
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Spiritual Gifts: Conversion as Cross-Cultural Practice Chapter 2. Histories: Origins and Experience Chapter 3. Geographies: Moral Landscapes and Contested Spaces Chapter 4. Perceptions: Human (and Other-than-Human) Natures Chapter 5. Translations: Linguistic Exchange and Cultural Mediation Chapter 6. Turnings: Spiritual Transformations and the Search for Order Chapter 7. Generations: Gender and Power Chapter 8. Communities: Indigenous Christianities in the Eighteenth Century Appendix: A Note on Sources and Methods Notes Index Acknowledgments
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