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Encounters of the spirit : Native Americans and European colonial religion / Richard W. Pointer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pointer, Richard W., 1955-
- Series:
- Religion in North America.
- Religion in North America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity and culture--North America.
- Christianity and culture.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Indians of North America--Religion.
- Indians of North America.
- North America--Church history.
- North America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Historians have long been aware that the encounter with Europeans affected all aspects of Native American life. But were Indians the only ones changed by these cross-cultural meetings? Might the newcomers' ways, including their religious beliefs and practices, have also been altered amid their myriad contacts with native peoples? In Encounters of the Spirit, Richard W. Pointer takes up these intriguing questions in an innovative study of the religious encounter between Indians and Euro-Americans in ear
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The sounds of worship
- A language of imitation
- A scene of new ideas
- "Poor Indians" and the "poor in spirit"
- Martyrs, healers, and statesmen
- Encountering death
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-277) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-07835-6
- 9786612078354
- 0-253-11689-9
- OCLC:
- 476128334
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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