Ryan Carr

Samson Occom

Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2023
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9780231210324
• ISBN-10: 0231210329
• Artikelnr.: 69074304

Autorenporträt

Ryan Carr. Foreword by Megan Fulopp and Amy Besaw Medford.

Inhaltsangabe

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Appendix: Unpublished Letters by Susanna Wheatley and Samson Occom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