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Samson Occom - Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast
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Samson Occom - Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast
Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life, 48
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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, among whom he is still
revered today. An international celebrity in his day, Occom rose to
fame as the first Native person to be ordained a minister in the
New England colonies. In the 1770s, he helped found the nation of
Brothertown, where Coastal Algonquian families seeking respite from
colonialism built a new life on land given to them by the Oneida
Nation. Occom was a highly productive author, probably the most
prolific Native American writer prior to the late nineteenth
century. Most of Occom’s writings, however, have been overlooked,
partly because many of them are about Christian themes that seem
unrelated to Native life. In this groundbreaking book, Ryan Carr
argues that Occom’s writings were deeply rooted in Indigenous
traditions of hospitality, diplomacy, and openness to strangers.
From Occom’s point of view, evangelical Christianity was not a
foreign culture; it was a new opportunity to practice his
people’s ancestral customs. Carr demonstrates Occom’s
originality as a religious thinker, showing how his commitment to
Native sovereignty shaped his reading of the Bible. By emphasizing
the Native sources of Occom’s evangelicalism, this book offers
new ways to understand the relations of Northeast Native tradition
to Christianity, colonialism, and Indigenous self-determination.
General
Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Religion, Culture, and Public Life, 48 |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Ryan Carr
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Foreword by: |
Megan Fulopp
• Amy Besaw Medford
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-21033-1 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-231-21033-7 |
Barcode: |
9780231210331 |
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