1 Reading Rituals: Performance and Religious Encounter in Early Colonial Northeastern North America

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: 1
5. Communities in Encounter
6. Reading Rituals: Performance and Religious Encounter in Early Colonial Northeastern North America 21
7. Managing Alliance, Negotiating Christianity: Haudenosaunee Uses of Anglicanism in Northeastern North America, 1760s–1830s 38
8. A Subversive Sincerity: The I:yem Memorial, Catholicism, and Political Opportunity in S’olh Téméxw 61
9. Individuals in Encounter
10. “The Joy My Heart Has Experienced”: Eliza Field Jones and the Transatlantic Missionary World, 1830s–40s 83
11. Between García Moreno and Chan Santa Cruz: Riel and the Métis Rebellions 102
12. Rethinking Edward Ahenakew’s Intellectual Legacy: Expressions of nêhiyawi-mâmitonêyihcikan (Cree Consciousness or Thinking) 119
13. Contemporary Encounters
14. Aporia, Atrocity, and Religion in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada 145
15. Decolonizing Religious Encounter? Teaching “Indigenous Traditions, Women, and Colonialism” 164
16. Autoethnography That Breaks Your Heart: Or What Does an Interdisciplinarian Do When What She Was Hoping for Simply Isn’t There? 183
17. Conclusion: 205
18. Contributors 209
19. Index 213