Perishing Heathens

Stories of Protestant Missionaries and Christian Indians in Antebellum America

Julius H. Rubin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

276 Seiten

2017
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-0187-4 (ISBN)

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In Perishing Heathens Julius H. Rubin tells the stories of missionary men and women who between 1800 and 1830 responded to the call to save Native peoples through missions, especially the Osages in the Arkansas Territory, Cherokees in Tennessee and Georgia, and Ojibwe peoples in the Michigan Territory. Rubin also recounts the lives of Native converts, many of whom were from mixed-blood mÉtis families and were attracted to the benefits of education, literacy, and conversion.

During the Second Great Awakening, Protestant denominations embraced a complex set of values, ideas, and institutions known as “the missionary spirit.” These missionaries fervently believed they would build the kingdom of God in America by converting Native Americans in the Trans-Appalachian and Trans-Mississippi West. Perishing Heathens explores the theology and institutions that characterized the missionary spirit and the early missions such as the Union Mission to the Osages, and the Brainerd Mission to the Cherokees, and the Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees.

Through a magnificent array of primary sources, Perishing Heathens reconstructs the millennial ideals of fervent true believers as they confronted a host of impediments to success: endemic malaria and infectious illness, Native resistance to the gospel message, and intertribal warfare in the context of the removal of eastern tribes to the Indian frontier.

Julius H. Rubin is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Saint Joseph. He is the author of Tears of Repentance: Christian Indian Identity and Community in Colonial Southern New England (Nebraska, 2013), The Other Side of Joy: Religious Melancholy among the Bruderhof, and Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America.

List of Tables

Preface

Introduction

1. The Travails of David Bacon: “A Humble Missionary of the Cross”

2. The Missionary Vocation of Miss D: A Life Broken by Disease and Disappointment

3. The Endless Chain of Religious Intelligence: The Emergence of an American Evangelical Identity

4. The Question of K: “The First Friend of the Osage Nation unto God”

5. The First Fruits of the Cherokee Nation: Catharine Brown and Sister Margaret Ann

6. MÉtis Christian Indian Lives: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and Mackinaw Mission Converts

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2017
Zusatzinfo	1 photograph, 3 tables, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4962-0187-6 / 1496201876
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-0187-4 / 9781496201874
Zustand	Neuware