TY - BOOK AU - Rubin,Julius H. TI - Tears of repentance: Christian Indian identity and community in Colonial southern New England SN - 9780803245679 AV - E78 .N5 R84 2013 U1 - 299.7299.7974 22 PY - 2013///] CY - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press KW - Indians of North America KW - New England KW - Religion KW - Missions KW - Ethnic identity KW - Christianity and other religions KW - Christianity and culture KW - History KW - Evangelistic work KW - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 KW - Indiens d'Amérique KW - Nouvelle-Angleterre KW - Identité ethnique KW - Christianisme KW - Relations KW - Christianisme et civilisation KW - Histoire KW - Évangélisation KW - États-Unis KW - ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) KW - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT KW - Spirituality KW - Paganism & Neo-Paganism KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION KW - Comparative Religion KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Ethnic Studies KW - Native American Studies KW - Christianity KW - fast KW - Colonial period KW - Interfaith relations KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-381) and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=577655 ER -