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  title info:
    title: "For the good of their souls"
    sub title: performing Christianity in eighteenth-century Mohawk country
  name:
    name part: Hart, William B.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In 1712, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts opened their mission near present-day Albany, New York and began baptizing residents of the nearby Mohawk village Tiononderoge, the easternmost nation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy. Within three years, about one-fifth of the Mohawks in the area began attending services. They even adapted versions of the service for use in private spaces, which potentially opened a door to an imagined faith community with the Protestants. Using the lens of performance theory to explain the ways in which the Mohawks considered converting and participating in Christian rituals, historian William B. Hart contends that Mohawks who prayed, sang hymns, submitted to baptism, took communion and acquired literacy did so to protect their nation's sovereignty, fulfill their responsibility of reciprocity, serve their communities and reinvent themselves. Performing Christianity was a means of "survivance," a strategy for sustaining Mohawk life and culture on their terms in a changing world.
  note: William B. Hart.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ny
  subject:
    topic: Mohawk Indians
    geographic: New York (State)
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Missions
    geographic: New York (State)
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    geographic: New York (State)
    topic: Church history
    temporal: 18th century
  classification: E99.M8 H37 2020
  classification: 974.7004/975542
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Native Americans of the Northeast
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  identifier: 1625344945
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  identifier: 9781613767405
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200113
    record change date: 20210125085919.0
    record identifier: in00004287487