›New Israel‹ in der Neuen Welt und der Ursprung der ›Indianer‹: Zur millenaristischen Ethnographie des frühen amerikanischen Puritanismus
After having transferred the title »Elect Nation« and »God’s Own Country« from England to America, the puritan colonial leaders and their millennial world view were afflicted mainly by two questions: 1. What was the origin of the Native Americans? Were they »natural offsprings« of the American earth...
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| Language: | German |
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Diagonal-Verlag
2012
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Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
Year: 2000, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 109-124 |
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| Summary: | After having transferred the title »Elect Nation« and »God’s Own Country« from England to America, the puritan colonial leaders and their millennial world view were afflicted mainly by two questions: 1. What was the origin of the Native Americans? Were they »natural offsprings« of the American earth or did they, on the contrary, represent the first colonisators. Were they, perhaps, even descendants of the »Ten Lost Tribes of Israel«? The theory that identified the Native Americans with the »Ten Lost Tribes of Israel« was at the same time fascinating and threatening: Fascinating, because of the central role the conversion of the Jews and the mission of the heathens play for the millenarian timetable. In the historical construction of the puritans these events with themselves right in the midst were forthcoming during 1630-1640. The »Ten Lost Tribes Theory« became threatening because of the inherent competition of two »New Israels« on American soil, the »White-Anglo-Saxon-Puritans« and the »degenerated Barbarians«. Therefore, the conversion of the ›Indians‹ could mean to »take home« the Jews into the church of Jesus Christ. The failure of the mission on the other hand, their refuse to accept Jesus and the outbreak of the first Indian-war in 1636, provoked a premillennial rhetoric, that made use of older antijudaic sources of the Christian millenarism. In the USA this rhetoric plays an unbroken role within the radical religious politics of the second millennium. |
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| ISSN: | 2194-508X |
| Contains: | In: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/zfr.2000.8.2.109 |