John Eliot S Indian Dialogues

Author : John Eliot
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015008712104

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John Eliot's Indian Dialogues by John Eliot Pdf

Bowden and Ronda have edited a classic from the Indian mission frontier in North America. Bowden's expertise in church history and Ronda's thorough understanding of the Native American predicament on the New England frontier are clearly reflected in this excellent volume. Thanks to their extremely useful introduction and the publication of a difficult-to-obtain tract, this book represents a valuable contribution to the growing body of ethnographic literature available to researchers.

Author : Richard W. Cogley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Colin G. Calloway
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611680614

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After King Philip's War by Colin G. Calloway Pdf

New perspectives on three centuries of Indian presence in New England

Author : Hughes Oliphant Old
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0802822320

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The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, Volume 5 by Hughes Oliphant Old Pdf

The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church is a multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old that canvasses the history of preaching from the words of Moses at Mount Sinai through modern times. In Volume 1, The Biblical Period, Old begins his survey by discussing the roots of the Christian ministry of the Word in the worship of Israel. He then examines the preaching of Christ and the Apostles. Finally, Old looks at the development and practice of Christian preaching in the second and third centuries, concluding with the ministry of Origen.

Author : Do Hoon Kim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Kathryn N. Gray
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Kristina Bross
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0801489385

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Dry Bones and Indian Sermons by Kristina Bross Pdf

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.

Author : Ussama Makdisi
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0801457742

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Artillery of Heaven by Ussama Makdisi Pdf

The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly after the arrival of the first American Protestant missionaries in the Middle East. He tells the dramatic tale of the conversion and death of As'ad Shidyaq, the earliest Arab convert to American Protestantism. The struggle over this man's body and soul—and over how his story might be told—changed the actors and cultures on both sides. In the unfamiliar, multireligious landscape of the Middle East, American missionaries at first conflated Arabs with Native Americans and American culture with an uncompromising evangelical Christianity. In turn, their Christian and Muslim opponents in the Ottoman Empire condemned the missionaries as malevolent intruders. Yet during the ensuing confrontation within and across cultures an unanticipated spirit of toleration was born that cannot be credited to either Americans or Arabs alone. Makdisi provides a genuinely transnational narrative for this new, liberal awakening in the Middle East, and the challenges that beset it. By exploring missed opportunities for cultural understanding, by retrieving unused historical evidence, and by juxtaposing for the first time Arab perspectives and archives with American ones, this book counters a notion of an inevitable clash of civilizations and thus reshapes our view of the history of America in the Arab world.

Author : Otto Zwartjes,Gregory James,Emilio Ridruejo Alonso
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027246025

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Lingüí?stica Misionera III by Otto Zwartjes,Gregory James,Emilio Ridruejo Alonso Pdf

This third volume on Missionary Linguistics focuses on morphology and syntax. It contains a selection of papers derived from the international conferences on missionary linguistics held in Hong Kong/Macau and Valladolid. As with the previous two volumes (2004, on general issues, and 2005, on orthography and phonology), this volume looks at methodology and descriptive techniques from a historical point of view, offering articles of interest to historiographers of linguistics, typologists, and descriptive linguists. It presents research into languages such as Tarasco (Pur'épecha), Massachusett, Nahuatl, Conivo, Sipibo, Guaraní, Vietnamese, Tamil, Southern Min Chinese dialects, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, Tagalog and other Austronesian languages, such as Yapese and Chamorro.

Author : Susan Castillo,Ivy Schweitzer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405152082

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A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America by Susan Castillo,Ivy Schweitzer Pdf

This broad introduction to Colonial American literatures brings outthe comparative and transatlantic nature of the writing of thisperiod and highlights the interactions between native, non-scribalgroups, and Europeans that helped to shape early Americanwriting. Situates the writing of this period in its various historicaland cultural contexts, including colonialism, imperialism,diaspora, and nation formation. Highlights interactions between native, non-scribal groups andEuropeans during the early centuries of exploration. Covers a wide range of approaches to defining and reading earlyAmerican writing. Looks at the development of regional spheres of influence inthe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Serves as a vital adjunct to Castillo and Schweitzer’s‘The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology’(Blackwell Publishing, 2001).

Author : Thomas Scanlan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521643058

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Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583-1671 by Thomas Scanlan Pdf

Looks at implications of colonialism for both English and Americans.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NYPL:33433082033576

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward J. Blum,Paul Harvey
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807835722

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The Color of Christ by Edward J. Blum,Paul Harvey Pdf

Explores the dynamic nature of Christ worship in the U.S., addressing how his image has been visually remade to champion the causes of white supremacists and civil rights leaders alike, and why the idea of a white Christ has endured.

Author : Jill Lepore
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307488572

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The Name of War by Jill Lepore Pdf

BANCROFF PRIZE WINNER • King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war—colonists against Indigenous peoples—that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war." The war's brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against accusations that they had become savages. But Jill Lepore makes clear that it was after the war—and because of it—that the boundaries between cultures, hitherto blurred, turned into rigid ones. King Philip's War became one of the most written-about wars in our history, and Lepore argues that the words strengthened and hardened feelings that, in turn, strengthened and hardened the enmity between Indigenous peoples and Anglos. Telling the story of what may have been the bitterest of American conflicts, and its reverberations over the centuries, Lepore has enabled us to see how the ways in which we remember past events are as important in their effect on our history as were the events themselves.

Author : Richard C.S. Trahair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135947736

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Utopias and Utopians by Richard C.S. Trahair Pdf

Utopian ventures are worth close attention, to help us understand why some succeed and others fail, for they offer hope for an improved life on earth. Utopias and Utopians is a comprehensive guide to utopian communities and their founders. Some works look at literary utopias or political utopias, etc., and others examine the utopias of only one country: this work examines utopias from antiquity to the present and surveys utopian efforts around the world. Of more than 600 alphabetically arranged entries roughly half are descriptions of utopian ventures; the other half are biographies of those who were involved. Entries are followed by a list of sources and a general bibliography concludes the volume.