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Description for Mohawk Saint
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 maps, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: BGH; HRCC7; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 388.
The daughter of a Algonquin mother and an Iroquois father, Catherine/Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680) has become known over the centuries as a Catholic convert so holy that, almost immediately upon her death, she became the object of a cult. Today she is revered as a patron saint by Native Americans and the patroness of ecology and the environment by Catholics more generally, the first Native North American proposed for sainthood. Tekakwitha was born at a time of cataclysmic change, as Native Americans of the northeast experienced the effects of European contact and colonization. A convert to Catholicism in the 1670s, ... Read more
The daughter of a Algonquin mother and an Iroquois father, Catherine/Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680) has become known over the centuries as a Catholic convert so holy that, almost immediately upon her death, she became the object of a cult. Today she is revered as a patron saint by Native Americans and the patroness of ecology and the environment by Catholics more generally, the first Native North American proposed for sainthood. Tekakwitha was born at a time of cataclysmic change, as Native Americans of the northeast experienced the effects of European contact and colonization. A convert to Catholicism in the 1670s, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195309348
SKU
V9780195309348
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Ref
99-31
About Allan Greer
Allan Greer is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The People of New France, Peasant, Lord, and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes, 1740-1840, The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North America, and co-editor of Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500-1800.
Reviews for Mohawk Saint
This book is no doubt the most comprehensive study of Catherine Tekakwitha to date, at least in English ... This book is impressive as a scholarly study
William Lonc, S.J., Archivum Historicum
He has successfully turned the story of a touching relationship between a sickly Indian woman and a heart-sick French missionary into a larger discourse about the ... Read more
William Lonc, S.J., Archivum Historicum
He has successfully turned the story of a touching relationship between a sickly Indian woman and a heart-sick French missionary into a larger discourse about the ... Read more