...This chapter focuses on the Assemblies of God (AG) and the roots of its missionary program to American Indians. It explains the indigenous principle and its importance to Pentecostal missionary theology, and highlights the beginnings of AG’s missions to American Indians. Christian Evangel...

...This chapter explores two basic aspects of missionary work: why Natives and whites became Pentecostal missionaries in the first place, and the mundane details of building their missions. Doing this highlights the differences between Native stories of salvation and white stories of being called...

...This chapter summarizes the preceding discussions. It reflects on how understanding a particular theology as a practice can inform American religious history and change how scholars of Native history approach the often troubling and complicated waters of missionary history. Assemblies of God AG...

...This introductory chapter briefly explores the emergence of the Primitive Baptist movement between the 1820s and 1850s. Primitive Baptists in the antebellum South struggled not only with missionary adversaries but with a set of beliefs that placed them at odds both with their fellow evangelicals...

...This chapter discusses the Catholic missionary initiatives to Native American communities. It argues that as Catholic sisters moved into worlds of color, the responses of ethnic communities to the presence of nuns shuffled some of the broader assumptions about the interracial narrative of the West...

...In late September 1863, Bragg ordered Officer Wheeler to raid the Sequatchie Valley at Rosencran’s rear. Wheeler’s men succeeded and began looting the area to Bragg’s disappointment. After losing Missionary Ridge outside of Chattanooga, Bragg resigned from his position at the Army of Tennessee...

... in the French Quarter, and jazz clubs hired integrated bands. Sister Gertrude Morgan was a self-appointed missionary and preacher, Bride of Christ, artist, musician, poet, and writer of profound religious faith. After a revelation in 1934, she decided to travel to New Orleans to evangelize. In the late 1950s...

...In 1663, the Puritan missionary John Eliot, with the help of a Nipmuck convert whom the English called James Printer, produced the first Bible printed in North America. It was printed not in English but in Algonquian, making it one of the first books printed in a Native language. This book examines...

...-century text written by the Jesuit missionary João Felipe Bettendorff, the earliest European written description of guaraná, the chapter reflects on the origins and impact of guarana´s insertion into Western networks of knowledge and power that emerged with the centralization of European states...

...Amid Confederate defeat in the Mississippi River Valley, Confederate Christians, freedpeople, and northern missionaries all claimed that Christian behavior should govern their work for opposite goals. White southern Christians believed that slavery’s biblical paternalistic order justified...

... in their Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes. This image depicts the installation of a new pastor, Rev. R. M. Prowell, and the officers of the auxiliary groups of Shiloh Missionary Baptist, the oldest Black church in Columbus, founded in 1861. Lula May Williams’s treasuring of the photograph testifies to the power...

...This chapter concludes the examination of the first migration type by looking at the role that the reformist and missionary impulse played in the movements of people to the frontier just after the American Revolution. It focuses on the fastest-growing evangelical group, the Methodists, and takes...

...This chapter focuses on the death of famed Jesuit missionary Jean de Brebeuf, which has been lifted from anonymity and singled out for intense scrutiny, reflection, and representation. Even with this disproportionate attention, however, Brebeuf's death remains a poorly understood event. Until...

...In closing, this book shows that each of its chapters has done much to complicate and open up our sense of past encounters between various Christian missionaries and various Native North American peoples. These encounters could transform missionaries even as their missionary projects could...

... that could be linked to Calvinist theology and such emotional experiences catalyzed the Primitive Baptist movement both by binding Primitives to each other and by serving as the raw material that Primitives projected onto their missionary enemies. Primitives failed to cultivate the normative emotional style...

...This chapter considers the messy and at times ugly undercurrents that took place in Pentecostal missionary work to American Indians. It discusses how white missionaries viewed traditional native religions, how Native missionaries responded to this view, how Indian Pentecostals came to redefine...

... Demographic changes Parham Louis Slavery Cherokee history Cherokee removal Trail of Tears U.S. Missionary history For several thousand years, the banks of the Tennessee River where Lookout Mountain faces Stringer’s Ridge has been a cradle for human civilization. Its unique geography and rich natural...

..., a framework that severed belief from its historic embeddedness in land, caste, life stage, and gender. This universalizing of Hinduism paved the way for Yogananda’s American ministry as a Hindu missionary. Benares Bharat Dharma Mahamandal hermitage Ghosh Mukunda Lal Yukteswar Ghosh Bhagabati Charan...

...This chapter traces saint-seeking from 1884 to 1925, providing short biographies of the early U.S. nominees for sainthood, most of whom were European missionaries to North America in the colonial and early national period. It argues that these prospective saints served as double symbols, proving...

...This chapter focuses on American evangelicals and the affirmation of their normativity. It begins by discussing a brief historical background of the evangelicals and the impact of Cold War in their missionary work. The chapter then discusses the critique, challenge, and limits of acceptable...