Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.