The Cherokees and Christianity, 1794-1870: Essays on Acculturation and Cultural Persistence

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University of Georgia Press, 2008 - 347 pagina's
In The Cherokees and Christianity, William G. McLoughlin examines how the process of religious acculturation worked within the Cherokee Nation during the nineteenth century. More concerned with Cherokee "Christianization" than Cherokee "civilization," these eleven essays cover the various stages of cultural confrontation with Christian imperialism.

The first section of the book explores the reactions of the Cherokee to the inevitable clash between Christian missionaries and their own religious leaders, as well as their many and varied responses to slavery. In part two, McLoughlin explores the crucial problem of racism that divided the southern part of North America into red, white and black long before 1776 and considers the ways in which the Cherokees either adapted Christianity to their own needs or rejected it as inimical to their identity.

 

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Introduction
3
Native American Reactions to Christian Missions
9
The Missionaries Dilemma
34
Two Bostonian Missionaries
50
The Reverend Evan Jones and the Cherokee Trail
91
Missionaries as Cultural Brokers
109
Accommodating the Old Religion to the
127
Society 18541861
219
Keetoowah Society 18601871
256
in Cherokee History
285
The Fast Day Proclamation of Chief Lewis
306
Index
343
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Over de auteur (2008)

William G. McLoughlin was Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor Emeritus of History and Religion, Professor Emeritus of History, and Chancellor's Fellow at Brown University. He was the author of several books on Cherokee history, including After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokee's Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839-1880. Walter H. Conser, Jr., is professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He is the author of God and the Natural World: Religion and Science in Antebellum America.

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