John Eliot’s Mission to the Indians before King Philip’s War

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Harvard University Press, 1 de jul. de 2009 - 347 páginas

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.

 

Conteúdo

1 The Context of the Mission
1
2 The Submission of the Sachems and the Birth of the Mission
23
3 The Early Development of the Mission
52
4 The Mission and the Millennium
76
5 The Natick Mission
105
Tables
137
6 The Remaining Praying Towns
140
7 Missionary Work outside Massachusetts Bay
172
8 The Supervision of the Mission
207
The Apostle and the Indians
240
Appendixes
251
Abbreviations
261
Principal Printed Sources
263
Notes
267
Index
323
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