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Author Clatterbuck, Mark

Title Demons, saints & patriots : Catholic visions of Native America through the Indian Sentinel, 1902-1962 / by Mark Clatterbuck
Published Milwaukee, Wis. : Marquette University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations
Series Marquette studies in theology ; no. 69
Marquette studies in theology ; no. 69
Contents Planting the center pole -- Imaginative re-centering in a time of transition -- Bloodthirsty animals & feathered spectacles -- Utopians, anthropologists & indianized priests -- White friends, Red patriots & true-blue American homemakers -- The Americanization of Catholic Indian missions -- Dancing in the Sentinel's twilight -- Shifting identities & the future of Catholic Indian missions
Summary This well-researched study illuminates the work of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions through the periodical it published from 1902 to 1962. Careful attention to the missionaries who wrote and the natives they wrote about yields impressive results--on the many varieties of missionaries and missionary motives, on the occasional successes and frequent tragedies of native development, and on the depth of human interactions that attended the missionary encounters. Mark Clatterbuck has written an important book on a rich, complex, and compelling subject. Mark Noll University of Notre Dame
With a sophisticated blend of religious history, theology, psychology, anthropology and hermeneutics, Mark Clatterbuck explores the meanings of Catholic missionaries' articles found in their Sentinel. Here are the narratives revealing the missionaries' complex images ranging from the Indian as the demonic savage, to the Romantic image of the "noble native" culminating in contemporary experiences of Catholic priests in sweat lodges or sharing the pipe. The reader will be treated to nothing short of an elegant writing style. This is a captivating synthesis of narrative and analysis. Christopher J. Kauffman The Catholic University of America
This is a lively, well documented account of Catholic missionaries, many of them foreigners to the U.S., alienated from their homes, defensive about their place in this country, ambivalent about the Natives whose souls they fought to save, and sometimes subject to the lure of reverse conversion to Indian ways. Christopher Vecsey Colgate University --Book Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-273) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Catholic Church -- Missions -- United States -- History
Catholic Church -- Periodicals.
Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions (U.S.) -- History
Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions (U.S.)
Catholic Church.
SUBJECT Indian sentinel (Washington, D.C. : 1916)
Indian Sentinel
Subject Indians of North America -- Missions.
Indians of North America -- Public opinion.
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation.
Indian Catholics -- United States -- Social conditions
Indians in popular culture -- United States -- History
Public opinion -- United States -- History
RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Missions.
Indians in popular culture.
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation.
Indians of North America -- Missions.
Indians of North America -- Public opinion.
Missions.
Public opinion.
United States.
Genre/Form periodicals.
History.
Periodicals.
Periodicals.
Périodiques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780874627473
0874627478
Other Titles Demons, saints, and patriots