By Jack M. Schultz
In this modern ethnography, Jack M. Schultz examines the function of faith in a single American Indian society: the Seminole Baptists of Oklahoma. Basing his learn on 4 years of fieldwork, Schultz exhibits how the Seminole Baptist church method is helping hold a conventional community.
Observers usually think that american citizens Indians choosing themselves as Christian have assimilated into the bigger Anglo international. As Schultz explains, even though, the Oklahoma Seminole Baptists, instead of passively adopting current non-Native buildings, have actively tailored them to house their neighborhood wishes. the folks Schultz encountered are Baptist. They assemble numerous occasions weekly in steepled church buildings for prayers, hymn making a song, and sermons in accordance with biblical texts. yet in addition they are Seminole, accomplishing prone essentially within the Mvskoke language and training local customs, akin to fasting within the woods and developing grave homes to defend the spirit because it returns to go to the body.
Schultz presents a context for his examine by way of tracing the background of the Seminoles to the current day. He then discusses Semnole Baptist ideals and practices, management roles, and the church’s organizational constitution, illustrating his observations with a close account of the social lifestyles pf a unmarried congregation.
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