title: The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America
author:  Linford D. Fisher 
description: "[A] fine exemplar of the maturation of the 'new Indian history, ' which places Native peoples at the center of the American past." <br /><br />--Nick Griffiths, William and Mary Quarterly<br /><br />"The Indian Great Awakening reminds us that religious engagement is both complex and personal. By examining the varied lived experiences of many Native Americans throughout southeastern New England, Fisher has reshaped our understanding of the ways in which these complex people navigated the intersections of race and religion in early America, showing clearly that their varied awakenings are no interpretive ficitions." <br /><br />--Common-Place<br /><br />"Fisher presents significantly more sophisticated interpretations of religious change that emphasize process, contingency, and lived experience over simple notions of conversion." <br /><br />--Tracy Neal Leavelle, Early American Literature<br /><br />"Questions about the extent to which the indigenous peoples of the Americas accepted and adopted the religious life and world views of European colonizers have plagued scholars since the earliest moments of contact....Scholars of the various cultures of Europeans and Native Americans have continuously wrestled with such questions. In his The Indian Great Awakening, Linford Fisher assumes a place alongside some of the best of these scholars." <br /><br />--Richard A. Bailey, Common-Place<br /><br />"In this meticulously researched and lucidly fashioned study of colonial Indians' encounters with European Christians, Fisher presses historians to move beyond idealized narratives of Indians undergoing blue-sky irreversible conversions. With great persuasive power, he details the ambiguities and paradoxes, affiliations and disaffiliations that marked the lives of real people caught in the maw of colliding worldviews, land grabs and racial barriers." <br /><br />--The Christian Century<br /><br />"Accessible, well written, and founded on thorough research. Recommended." <br /><br />--CHOICE<br /><br />"This fine book reconstructs Native encounters with Christian"
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  INDIA AWAKENING
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  FORWARD MISSION STUDY COURSES
  EDITED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE
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  INDIA AWAKENING
  BY
  SHERWOOD EDDY
  NEW YORK
  MISSIONARY EDUCATION MOVEMENT
  OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
  IQ 12
  
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  191 1, by
  Missionary Education Movement
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  CONTENTS
  CHAPTER
  PAGE
  Editorial Statement
  ii
  Preface
  xi
  I
  The People of India
  1
  II
  Eeligiona
  27
  III
  The National Awakening
  55
  IV
  Individual and Mass Movements
  83
  V
  The
  Students
  Ill
  VI
  Womanhood
  137
  VII
  The Church and the Missionary
  163
  VIII
  The Winning of India
  191
  Questions and
  Eeferenees
  221
  APPENDIXES
  A
  Area
  and
  Population
  of
  British
  Provinces
  and
  Native States, 1901
  241
  B
  Distribution
  of
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