For the Good of Their Souls: Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country

ISBN-13: 9781625344946 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 288 str.

William B. Hart

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Mohawk Beliefs and the Needs of the Soul
• Chapter 1: ""Dwindl'd to Nothing Almost"": The Mohawks & Their World at 1700
• Chapter 2: ""Ordering the Life and Manners of a Numerous People"": The Ideology and Performances of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
• Chapter 3: ""Laying a Good and Lasting Foundation of Religion"": Success and Failure at the Fort Hunter Mission, 1710-19
• Chapter 4: Mohawk Schoolmasters and Catechists: Literacy, Authority, and Empowerment at Mid-Century
• Chapter 5: ""A Single Mission in the Old, Beaten Way Makes No Noise"": New Strategies for Capturing Mohawk Bodies and Souls, 1760-1775
• Chapter 6: ""As Formerly Under Their Respective Chiefs"": The Mohawk Diaspora into Upper Canada, 1784-1810 Conclusion