By Julius H. Rubin
Tears of Repentance revisits and reexamines the conventional tales of intercultural encounters among Protestant missionaries and local peoples in southern New England from the 17th to the early 19th centuries. targeting Protestant missionaries’ bills in their beliefs, reasons, and targets one of the local groups they served and of the faith as lived, skilled, and practiced between Christianized Indians, Julius H. Rubin bargains a brand new manner of realizing the explanations and motivations of these who lived in New England’s early Christianized Indian village communities.
Rubin explores how Christian Indians recast Protestant theology into an Indianized quest for salvation from their worldly problems and towards the promise of an otherworldly paradise. the nice Awakening of the eighteenth century finds how evangelical pietism remodeled spiritual identities and groups and gave upward thrust to the elegant wish that New Born Indians have been kids of God who may well successfully contest colonialism. With this dream unfulfilled, the exodus from New England to Brothertown predicted a separatist Christian Indian commonwealth at the borderlands of the United States after the Revolution.
Tears of Repentance is a crucial contribution to American colonial and local American background, supplying new methods of interpreting how local teams and participants recast Protestant theology to revive their local groups and cultures.
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