John Eliot And The Praying Indians Of Massachusetts Bay

Author : Kathryn N. Gray
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611485045
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Eliot and the Praying Indians of Massachusetts Bay written by Kathryn N. Gray and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of John Eliot’s mission to the Algonquian-speaking people of Massachusetts Bay, from his arrival in 1631 until his death in 1690. It explores John Eliot’s determination to use the Massachusett dialect of Algonquian, both in speech and in print, as a language of conversion and Christianity. The book analyzes the spoken words of religious conversion and the written transcription of those narratives; it also considers the Algonquian language texts and English language texts which Eliot published to support the mission. Central to this study is an insistence that John Eliot consciously situated his mission within a tapestry of contesting transatlantic and political forces, and that this framework had a direct impact on the ways in which Native American penitents shaped and contested their Christian identities. To that end, the study begins by examining John Eliot’s transatlantic network of correspondents and missionary-supporters in England, it then considers the impact of conversion narratives in spoken and written forms, and ends by evaluating the impact of literacy on praying Indian communities. The study maps the coalescence of different communities that shaped, or were shaped by, Eliot’s seventeenth-century mission.

Author : Richard W. Cogley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674029631
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Eliot’s Mission to the Indians before King Philip’s War written by Richard W. Cogley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No previous work on John Eliot's mission to the Indians has told such a comprehensive and engaging story. Richard Cogley takes a dual approach: he delves deeply into Eliot's theological writings and describes the historical development of Eliot's missionary work. By relating the two, he presents fresh perspectives that challenge widely accepted assessments of the Puritan mission. Cogley incorporates Eliot's eschatology into the history of the mission, takes into account the biographies of the proselytes (the "praying Indians") and the individual histories of the Christian Indian settlements (the "praying towns"), and corrects misperceptions about the mission's role in English expansion. He also addresses other interpretive problems in Eliot's mission, such as why the Puritans postponed their evangelizing mission until 1646, why Indians accepted or rejected the mission, and whether the mission played a role in causing King Philip's War. This book makes signal contributions to New England history, Native American history, and religious studies.

Author : Daniel Maudlin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469626837
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building the British Atlantic World written by Daniel Maudlin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. In this groundbreaking study, thirteen leading scholars explore the idea of transatlanticism--or a shared "Atlantic world" experience--through the lens of architecture, built spaces, and landscapes in the British Atlantic from the seventeenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. Examining town planning, churches, forts, merchants' stores, state houses, and farm houses, this collection shows how the powerful visual language of architecture and design allowed the people of this era to maintain common cultural experiences across different landscapes while still forming their individuality. By studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity, gender, taste, domesticity, politics, and race, the authors interpret material culture in a way that particularly emphasizes the people who built, occupied, and used the spaces and reflects the complex cultural exchanges between Britain and the New World.

Author : Ola Elizabeth Winslow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians written by Ola Elizabeth Winslow and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Do Hoon Kim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666709816
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Eliot's Puritan Ministry to New England "Indians" written by Do Hoon Kim and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Eliot (1604–90) has been called “the apostle to the Indians.” This book looks at Eliot not from the perspective of modern Protestant “mission” studies (the approach mainly adopted by previous research) but in the historical and theological context of seventeenth-century puritanism. Drawing on recent research on migration to New England, the book argues that Eliot, like many other migrants, went to New England primarily in search of a safe haven to practice pure reformed Christianity, not to convert Indians. Eliot’s Indian ministry started from a fundamental concern for the conversion of the unconverted, which he derived from his experience of the puritan movement in England. Consequently, for Eliot, the notion of New England Indian “mission” was essentially conversion-oriented, Word-centered, and pastorally focused, and (in common with the broader aims of New England churches) pursued a pure reformed Christianity. Eliot hoped to achieve this through the establishment of Praying Towns organized on a biblical model—where preaching, pastoral care, and the practice of piety could lead to conversion—leading to the formation of Indian churches composed of “sincere converts.”

Author : Ola Elizabeth Winslow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians written by Ola Elizabeth Winslow and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Williams
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1557094640
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Key Into the Language of America written by Roger Williams and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discourse on the languages of Native Americans encountered by the early settlers. This early linguistic treatise gives rare insight into the early contact between Europeans and Native Americans.

Author : Michael McInnis
Publisher : Nixes Mate Books
ISBN 13 : 9781949279146
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Passion of John Eliot written by Michael McInnis and published by Nixes Mate Books. This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Eliot was a Puritan missionary, the "apostle to the Indians," who translated the Bible into the Algonquin language which helped convert the tribes aurrounding Massachusetts Bay to Christianity. Eliot founded "Praying Indian" towns where his flock could practice Christianity and still retain their culture and eay of living. Told from Eliot's persepctive, "The Passion of John Eliot" speaks to his strengths and weaknesses as both a preacher and a man. "The Passion of John Eliot" is the first in Nixes Mate's Fly Cotton Chapbook series.

Author : John Eliot
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1557095752
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Grammar Begun written by John Eliot and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for the native people of Massachusetts by John Eliot in 1666, this monumental linguistic work was intended as a basis for teaching the Algonquinian-speaking people to read the Bible, which Eliot had translated into Algonquinian in 1661. This edition contains a facsimile of the original side-by-side with a reset version in modern type.

Author : Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905 written by Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: