Carr Samson Occom

Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-231-55836-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 48

Reihe: Religion, Culture, and Public Life

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. In this groundbreaking book, Ryan Carr argues that Occom’s writings were deeply rooted in Indigenous traditions of hospitality, diplomacy, and openness to strangers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carr, Ryan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fulopp, Megan

Medford, Amy Besaw

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Indigene Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöses Leben und religiöse Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Amy Medford and Megan Fulopp
Acknowledgments
Introduction, on the Occasion of Samson Occom’s Three Hundredth Birthday
Part I
1. “Asylum for Strangers”: An Approach to Occom’s Traditionalism
2. Occom Obviously: Literary Studies and the Problem of Indigenous Knowledge
Part II
3. A Theology of Land and Peoplehood
4. Piety and Placemaking: Styles of Strangerhood Among Occom and His Kin
Part III
5. Seft at Last: Occom’s 1768 Autobiography in Native Space
6. “Time to Awake”: Occom on Perception, Alienation, and “Pure Religion”
Conclusion: “Good Enthusiasm”
Appendix: Unpublished Letters by Susanna Wheatley and Samson Occom
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ryan Carr is a lecturer in English and comparative literature, American studies, and the Core Curriculum at Columbia University.

Megan Fulopp and Amy Besaw Medford are members of the Brothertown Indian Nation. Fulopp is a researcher who manages Brothertown-related projects, including the web-based “Life of the Brothertown Indians,” and Medford is a research affiliate with the Project on Indigenous Governance and Development at the Harvard Kennedy School.