John Eliot And The Praying Indians Of Massachusetts Bay

Author : Kathryn N. Gray
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611485042

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John Eliot and the Praying Indians of Massachusetts Bay by Kathryn N. Gray Pdf

This book traces the development of John Eliot’s mission to the Algonquian-speaking people of Massachusetts Bay, from his arrival in 1631 until his death in 1690. It explores John Eliot’s determination to use the Massachusett dialect of Algonquian, both in speech and in print, as a language of conversion and Christianity. The book analyzes the spoken words of religious conversion and the written transcription of those narratives; it also considers the Algonquian language texts and English language texts which Eliot published to support the mission. Central to this study is an insistence that John Eliot consciously situated his mission within a tapestry of contesting transatlantic and political forces, and that this framework had a direct impact on the ways in which Native American penitents shaped and contested their Christian identities. To that end, the study begins by examining John Eliot’s transatlantic network of correspondents and missionary-supporters in England, it then considers the impact of conversion narratives in spoken and written forms, and ends by evaluating the impact of literacy on praying Indian communities. The study maps the coalescence of different communities that shaped, or were shaped by, Eliot’s seventeenth-century mission.

Author : Richard W. Cogley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674029637

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John Eliot’s Mission to the Indians before King Philip’s War by Richard W. Cogley Pdf

No previous work on John Eliot's mission to the Indians has told such a comprehensive and engaging story. Richard Cogley takes a dual approach: he delves deeply into Eliot's theological writings and describes the historical development of Eliot's missionary work. By relating the two, he presents fresh perspectives that challenge widely accepted assessments of the Puritan mission. Cogley incorporates Eliot's eschatology into the history of the mission, takes into account the biographies of the proselytes (the "praying Indians") and the individual histories of the Christian Indian settlements (the "praying towns"), and corrects misperceptions about the mission's role in English expansion. He also addresses other interpretive problems in Eliot's mission, such as why the Puritans postponed their evangelizing mission until 1646, why Indians accepted or rejected the mission, and whether the mission played a role in causing King Philip's War. This book makes signal contributions to New England history, Native American history, and religious studies.

Author : Daniel Maudlin,Bernard L. Herman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781469626833

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Building the British Atlantic World by Daniel Maudlin,Bernard L. Herman Pdf

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. In this groundbreaking study, thirteen leading scholars explore the idea of transatlanticism--or a shared "Atlantic world" experience--through the lens of architecture, built spaces, and landscapes in the British Atlantic from the seventeenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. Examining town planning, churches, forts, merchants' stores, state houses, and farm houses, this collection shows how the powerful visual language of architecture and design allowed the people of this era to maintain common cultural experiences across different landscapes while still forming their individuality. By studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity, gender, taste, domesticity, politics, and race, the authors interpret material culture in a way that particularly emphasizes the people who built, occupied, and used the spaces and reflects the complex cultural exchanges between Britain and the New World.

Author : Michael McInnis
Publisher : Nixes Mate Books
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1949279146

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The Passion of John Eliot by Michael McInnis Pdf

John Eliot was a Puritan missionary, the "apostle to the Indians," who translated the Bible into the Algonquin language which helped convert the tribes aurrounding Massachusetts Bay to Christianity. Eliot founded "Praying Indian" towns where his flock could practice Christianity and still retain their culture and eay of living. Told from Eliot's persepctive, "The Passion of John Eliot" speaks to his strengths and weaknesses as both a preacher and a man. "The Passion of John Eliot" is the first in Nixes Mate's Fly Cotton Chapbook series.

Author : Ola Elizabeth Winslow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Evangelists
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033875183

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John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians by Ola Elizabeth Winslow Pdf

Author : Roger L. Nichols
Publisher : VNR AG
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0394352386

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The American Indian by Roger L. Nichols Pdf

Essays on various aspects of the Native American Experience.

Author : Do Hoon Kim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666709810

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John Eliot's Puritan Ministry to New England "Indians" by Do Hoon Kim Pdf

John Eliot (1604–90) has been called “the apostle to the Indians.” This book looks at Eliot not from the perspective of modern Protestant “mission” studies (the approach mainly adopted by previous research) but in the historical and theological context of seventeenth-century puritanism. Drawing on recent research on migration to New England, the book argues that Eliot, like many other migrants, went to New England primarily in search of a safe haven to practice pure reformed Christianity, not to convert Indians. Eliot’s Indian ministry started from a fundamental concern for the conversion of the unconverted, which he derived from his experience of the puritan movement in England. Consequently, for Eliot, the notion of New England Indian “mission” was essentially conversion-oriented, Word-centered, and pastorally focused, and (in common with the broader aims of New England churches) pursued a pure reformed Christianity. Eliot hoped to achieve this through the establishment of Praying Towns organized on a biblical model—where preaching, pastoral care, and the practice of piety could lead to conversion—leading to the formation of Indian churches composed of “sincere converts.”

Author : Roger Williams
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557094643

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A Key Into the Language of America by Roger Williams Pdf

A discourse on the languages of Native Americans encountered by the early settlers. This early linguistic treatise gives rare insight into the early contact between Europeans and Native Americans.

Author : Colin Gordon Calloway
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0874518199

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After King Philip's War by Colin Gordon Calloway Pdf

New perspectives on three centuries of Indian presence in New England

Author : Do Hoon Kim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666709797

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John Eliot's Puritan Ministry to New England "Indians" by Do Hoon Kim Pdf

John Eliot (1604–90) has been called “the apostle to the Indians.” This book looks at Eliot not from the perspective of modern Protestant “mission” studies (the approach mainly adopted by previous research) but in the historical and theological context of seventeenth-century puritanism. Drawing on recent research on migration to New England, the book argues that Eliot, like many other migrants, went to New England primarily in search of a safe haven to practice pure reformed Christianity, not to convert Indians. Eliot’s Indian ministry started from a fundamental concern for the conversion of the unconverted, which he derived from his experience of the puritan movement in England. Consequently, for Eliot, the notion of New England Indian “mission” was essentially conversion-oriented, Word-centered, and pastorally focused, and (in common with the broader aims of New England churches) pursued a pure reformed Christianity. Eliot hoped to achieve this through the establishment of Praying Towns organized on a biblical model—where preaching, pastoral care, and the practice of piety could lead to conversion—leading to the formation of Indian churches composed of “sincere converts.”

Author : Louise A. Breen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351660310

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Daniel Gookin, the Praying Indians, and King Philip's War by Louise A. Breen Pdf

This volume presents a valuable collection of annotated primary documents published during King Philip’s War (1675–76), a conflict that pitted English colonists against many native peoples of southern New England, to reveal the real-life experiences of early Americans. Louise Breen’s detailed introduction to Daniel Gookin and the War, combined with interpretations of the accompanying ancillary documents, offers a set of inaccessible or unpublished archival documents that illustrate the distrust and mistreatment heaped upon praying (Christian) Indians. The book begins with an informative annotation of Historical Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England, in the Years 1675, 1675, and 1677, written by Gookin, a magistrate and military leader who defended Massachusetts’ praying Indians, to expose atrocities committed against natives and the experiences of specific individuals and towns during the war. Developments in societal, and particularly religious, inclusivity in Puritan New England during this period of colonial conflict are thoroughly explored through Breen’s analysis. The book offers students primary sources that are pertinent to survey history courses on Early Americans and Colonial History, as well as providing instructors with documents that serve as concrete examples to illustrate broad societal changes that occurred during the seventeenth century.

Author : Edward E. Andrews
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674073470

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Native Apostles by Edward E. Andrews Pdf

As Protestantism expanded across the Atlantic, most evangelists were not Anglo-Americans but were members of the groups that missionaries were trying to convert. Native Apostles reveals the way Native Americans, Africans, and black slaves redefined Christianity and addressed the challenges of slavery, dispossession, and European settlement.

Author : Jared Sparks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:B5307998

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The Library of American Biography: Life of John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians by Jared Sparks Pdf

Author : Virginia DeJohn Anderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0195304462

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Creatures of Empire by Virginia DeJohn Anderson Pdf

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Author : Convers Francis
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 0512001855

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Life of John Eliot by Convers Francis Pdf