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Author Bourne, Russell.

Title Gods of war, gods of peace : how the meeting of native and colonial religions shaped early America / Russell Bourne.

Imprint New York : Harcourt, c2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  200.9033 B667g 2002    ---  Available
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  200.9033 B667g 2002 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st ed.
Description xv, 425 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Note Maps on lining papers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-398) and index.
Contents 1. The devilish interaction of two religions -- 2. A Wampanoag "saint" and a Narragannsett prince -- 3. Two men of opposed Gods on the northern frontier -- 4. The New England apostle's native churches -- 5. The early eighteenth century's flowering of hope -- 6. In the twilight of an empire, a mission-minded schoolmaster and a prophet for Pontiac -- 7. Prophets of two separate revolutions -- 8. The imminent apocalypse and the ultimate removal.
Subject United States -- Religion -- To 1800.
Indians of North America -- New England.
New England -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
Indians of North America -- Religion.
ISBN 015100501X

 
    
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