Author: Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Western North Carolina ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Minutes of the ... Session of the Western North Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South ...
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Western North Carolina ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for the Year ...
Author: Minutes of the Annual Conferences
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church, SouthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church, SouthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: Methodist Episcopal ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist conferences
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
Minutes Taken at the Several Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America
Author: Methodist Episcopal ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist conferences
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Author: Journal of the North Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church, South. North Carolina ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the Years 1773-1881
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church. ConferencesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Capture These Indians for the Lord
Author: Tash SmithPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816598614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In 1844, on the heels of the final wave of the forced removal of thousands of Indians from the southern United States to what is now Oklahoma, the Southern Methodist Church created a separate organization known as the Indian Mission Conference to oversee its missionary efforts among the Native communities of Indian Territory. Initially, the Church conducted missions as part of the era’s push toward assimilation. But what the primarily white missionaries quickly encountered was a population who exerted more autonomy than they expected and who used Christianity to protect their culture, both of which frustrated those eager to bring Indian Territory into what they felt was mainstream American society. In Capture These Indians for the Lord, Tash Smith traces the trajectory of the Southern Methodist Church in Oklahoma when it was at the frontlines of the relentless push toward western expansion. Although many Native people accepted the missionaries’ religious practices, Smith shows how individuals found ways to reconcile the Methodist force with their traditional cultural practices. When the white population of Indian Territory increased and Native sovereignty came under siege during the allotment era of the 1890s, white communities marginalized Indians within the Church and exploited elements of mission work for their own benefit. Later, with white indifference toward Indian missions peaking in the early twentieth century, Smith explains that as the remnants of the Methodist power weakened, Indian membership regained control and used the Church to regenerate their culture. Throughout, Smith explores the complex relationships between white and Indian community members and how these phenomena shaped Methodist churches in the twentieth century.