Tears of repentance : Christian Indian identity and community in Colonial southern New England / Julius H. Rubin.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-381) and index.

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Praying towns and praying-to-God Indians -- The penitential sense of life -- The pattern of religious paternalism in eighteenth-century Christian Indian communities -- Samson Occom and evangelical Christian Indian identity -- The Stockbridge and New Jersey Brotherton tribes -- The Moravian missions to Shekomeko and Pachgatgoch -- Errand into the Borderlands -- Frontier rendezvous -- Appendix A: Religion and Red power -- Appendix B: A note on Indiantowns,

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction; 1. Praying Towns and Praying-to-God Indians; 2. The Penitential Sense of Life; 3. The Pattern of Religious Paternalism in Eighteenth-Century Christian Indian Communities; 4. Samson Occom and Evangelical Christian Indian Identity; 5. The Stockbridge and New Jersey Brotherton Tribes; 6. The Moravian Missions to Shekomeko and Pachgatgoch; 7. Errand into the Borderlands; 8. Frontier Rendezvous; Conclusion; Appendix A: Religion and Red Power; Appendix B: A Note on Indiantowns; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Tears of Repentance revisits and reexamines the familiar stories of intercultural encounters between Protestant missionaries and Native peoples in southern New England from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Focusing on Protestant missionaries' accounts of their ideals, purposes, and goals among the Native communities they served and of the religion as lived, experienced, and practiced among Christianized Indians, Julius H. Rubin offers a new way of understanding the motives and motivations of those who lived in New England's early Christianized Indian village communities.

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