Tears of Repentance: Christian Indian Identity and Community in Colonial Southern New England

Synopsis

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. (dust Jacket). 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. Julius H. Rubin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.