George Weekes: Rogue Missionary to New England Indians, 1731-1755
During the mid-1700s, an uneducated layman named George Weekes began preaching to Native Americans in the town of Harwich, Massachusetts. Weekes' missionary activity triggered a passionate response from Nathaniel Stone, the local minister, and inaugurated a debate regarding ministerial qualific...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of religious history |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2016]
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Journal of religious history
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| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Weekes, George 1689-1772
/ Neuengland
/ Indianer
/ Mission
/ Missionar
/ Theologe
/ Ausbildung
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| RelBib Classification: | KBQ Nordamerika RJ Mission; Missionswissenschaft |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Puritan
B Missionary B New England B Native American |
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| Zusammenfassung: | During the mid-1700s, an uneducated layman named George Weekes began preaching to Native Americans in the town of Harwich, Massachusetts. Weekes' missionary activity triggered a passionate response from Nathaniel Stone, the local minister, and inaugurated a debate regarding ministerial qualifications within the community. Scholars who study English missionary activity in colonial New England tend to focus upon the careers of trained clergy, such as John Eliot or Josiah Cotton. Other individuals, who possessed questionable moral character and little education, also preached to New England Indians, however. In this instance, the career of George Weekes, a rogue missionary, reveals that contact with Native Americans could shape ecclesiastical life in colonial Massachusetts. It also suggests that Native Americans encountered popular, as well as elite, English religious culture when they interacted with English missionaries in early New England. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9809 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12304 |