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Samson Occom : Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast / Ryan Carr ; foreword by Megan Fulopp and Amy Besaw Medford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carr, Ryan, author.
- Series:
- Religion, culture, and public life ; Volume 48.
- Religion, Culture, and Public Life ; Volume 48
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Occom, Samson, 1723-1792.
- Occom, Samson.
- Occom, Samson, 1723-1792--Criticism and interpretation.
- Presbyterian Church--Clergy--Biography.
- Presbyterian Church.
- Mohegan Indians--Biography.
- Mohegan Indians.
- Religious literature, American--History and criticism.
- Religious literature, American.
- American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Brotherton Indians--History.
- Brotherton Indians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (349 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- 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. In this groundbreaking book, Ryan Carr argues that Occom's writings were deeply rooted in Indigenous traditions of hospitality, diplomacy, and openness to strangers.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Foreword, by Amy Medford and Megan Fulopp
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction, on the Occasion of Samson Occom's Three Hundredth Birthday
- Part I
- 1. "Asylum for Strangers": An Approach to Occom's Traditionalism
- 2. Occom Obviously: Literary Studies and the Problem of Indigenous Knowledge
- Part II
- 3. A Theology of Land and Peoplehood
- 4. Piety and Placemaking: Styles of Strangerhood Among Occom and His Kin
- Part III
- 5. Seft at Last: Occom's 1768 Autobiography in Native Space
- 6. "Time to Awake": Occom on Perception, Alienation, and "Pure Religion"
- Conclusion: "Good Enthusiasm"
- Appendix: Unpublished Letters by Susanna Wheatley and Samson Occom
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-231-55836-8
- OCLC:
- 1401056862
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