Throughout my research, I encountered many stories like Cûifā́gàui’s, in which Native people struggled as traditional formats for accessing sacred…
The Gods of Indian Country: An introduction
missionaries
Bordering the Kingdom
If the Kingdom of God has no borders, then this can be true only for those for whom borders do…
Conversion and race in colonial slavery
Why was black conversion so controversial? Or to put it differently, why did the baptism of enslaved and free black…
Constructing Indian religion in Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu
Michael Altman’s contribution to our historical understandings of American ideas about foreign religions is to note the ways in which…