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03747aam a2200385 a 4500 001 EE501562B3B611E2BB8BFCD2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130503010051 008 111024s2012 nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2011042931 020 $a 0199740046 (hardcover : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780199740048 (hardcover : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)758646873 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d UKMGB $d YDXCP $d BWX $d CDX $d OCLCO $d MUU $d OCLCO $d BKX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usn-- 050 $a E78.N5 $b F56 2012 050 00 $a E78.N5 $b F56 2012 100 1 $a Fisher, Linford D. 245 14 $a The Indian great awakening : $b religion and the shaping of native cultures in early America / $c Linford D. Fisher. 260 $a New York : $b Oxford University Press, $c c2012. 300 $a xii, 296 p. : $b ill., maps ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-275) and index. 505 0 $a Rainmaking -- Evangelizing -- Awakening -- Affiliating -- Separating -- Educating -- Migrating -- Remaining. 520 $a "The First Great Awakening was a time of heightened religious activity in the colonial New England. Among those whom the English settlers tried to convert to Christianity were the region's native peoples. In this book, Linford Fisher tells the gripping story of American Indians' attempts to wrestle with the ongoing realities of colonialism between the 1670s and 1820. In particular, he looks at how some members of previously unevangelized Indian communities in Connecticut, Rhode Island, western Massachusetts, and Long Island adopted Christian practices, often joining local Congregational churches and receiving baptism. Far from passively sliding into the cultural and physical landscape after King Philip's War, he argues, Native individuals and communities actively tapped into transatlantic structures of power to protect their land rights, welcomed educational opportunities for their children, and joined local white churches. Religion repeatedly stood at the center of these points of cultural engagement, often in hotly contested ways. Although these Native groups had successfully resisted evangelization in the seventeenth century, by the eighteenth century they showed an increasing interest in education and religion. Their sporadic participation in the First Great Awakening marked a continuation of prior forms of cultural engagement. More surprisingly, however, in the decades after the Awakening, Native individuals and sub-groups asserted their religious and cultural autonomy to even greater degrees by leaving English churches and forming their own Indian Separate churches. In the realm of education, too, Natives increasingly took control, preferring local reservation schools and demanding Indian teachers whenever possible. In the 1780s, two small groups of Christian Indians moved to New York and founded new Christian Indian settlements. But the majority of New England Natives-even those who affiliated with Christianity-chose to remain in New England, continuing to assert their own autonomous existence through leasing land, farming, and working on and off the reservations."--Publisher's website. 650 0 $a Indians of North America $z New England $x Religion. 650 0 $a Indians of North America $z New England $x Social life and customs. 650 0 $a Christianity and other religions $z New England. 650 0 $a Christianity and culture $z New England $x History. 651 0 $a New England $x Religious life and customs. 941 $a 3 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718090744.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826034107.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20130503012018.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EE501562B3B611E2BB8BFCD2DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search