{"product_id":"the-solidarity-of-kin-ethnohistory-religious-studies-and-the-algonkian-french-religious-encounter-paperback","title":"The Solidarity of Kin: Ethnohistory, Religious Studies, and the Algonkian-French Religious Encounter - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKenneth M. Morrison\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUsing the example of the Eastern Algonkians, this book argues that Native Americans did not convert to Christianity, but rather made sense of Christianity in their own traditional ways and for their own social purposes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguing that Native Americans' religious life and history have been misinterpreted, author Kenneth M. Morrison reconstructs the Eastern Algonkians' world views and demonstrates the indigenous modes of rationality that shaped not only their encounter with the French but also their self-directed process of religious change. In reassessing controversial anthropological, historical, and ethnohistorical scholarship, Morrison develops interpretive strategies that are more responsive to the religious world views of the Eastern Algonkian peoples. He concludes that the Eastern Algonkians did not convert to Catholicism, but rather applied traditional knowledge and values to achieve a pragmatic and critical sense of Christianity and to preserve and extend kinship solidarity into the future. The result was a remarkable intersection of Eastern Algonkian and missionary cosmologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKenneth M. Morrison \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Religion at Arizona State University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Embattled Northeast: The Elusive Ideal of Alliance in Abenaki-Euramerican Relations\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 254\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9.04 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451767537842,"sku":"9780791454060","price":63.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/86841420e54a67a39243473dea416809.webp?v=1778800829","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-solidarity-of-kin-ethnohistory-religious-studies-and-the-algonkian-french-religious-encounter-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}