Samson Occom
Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast
1st Edition
Published on 8. November 2023
352 pages
978-0-231-55836-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Ryan Carr is a lecturer in English and comparative literature, American studies, and the Core Curriculum at Columbia University.
Megan Fulopp and Amy Besaw Medford are members of the Brothertown Indian Nation. Fulopp is a researcher who manages Brothertown-related projects, including the web-based "Life of the Brothertown Indians," and Medford is a research affiliate with the Project on Indigenous Governance and Development at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Megan Fulopp and Amy Besaw Medford are members of the Brothertown Indian Nation. Fulopp is a researcher who manages Brothertown-related projects, including the web-based "Life of the Brothertown Indians," and Medford is a research affiliate with the Project on Indigenous Governance and Development at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Content
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Appendix: Unpublished Letters by Susanna Wheatley and Samson Occom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
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
