Samson Occom : : Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast /

Samson Occom : : Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast / / Ryan Carr.

The Mohegan-Brothertown minister Samson Occom (1723–1792) was a prominent political and religious leader of the Indigenous peoples of present-day New York and New England, among whom he is still revered today. An international celebrity in his day, Occom rose to fame as the first Native person to be...

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VerfasserIn:
Carr, Ryan,
MitwirkendeR:
Fulopp, Megan,
Medford, Amy Besaw,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Religion, Culture, and Public Life ; 48
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 9 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: On the Occasion of Samson Occom’s Three Hundredth Birthday
  • PART I
  • CHAPTER I. “Asylum for Strangers”
  • CHAPTER II. Occom Obviously
  • PART II
  • CHAPTER III. A Theology of Land and Peoplehood
  • CHAPTER IV. Piety and Placemaking
  • CHAPTER V. Seft at Last
  • CHAPTER VI. “Time to Awake”
  • Conclusion. “Good Enthusiasm”
  • APPENDIX. Two Letters from Susanna Wheatley to John Thornton Concerning Samson Occom
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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