The Open Brethren: A Christian Sect in the Modern World

The Open Brethren: A Christian Sect in the Modern World
Author: Peter Herriot
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2018-12-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030032191

This book gives a personal insight into the hearts and minds of a fundamentalist Christian sect, the Open Brethren. Using Brethren magazine articles, obituaries, and testimonies, Peter Herriot argues that the Brethren constitute a perfect example of a fundamentalism. Their culture is entirely opposed to the beliefs, values, and norms of modernity. As a result, like other fundamentalisms they challenge modern Christianity and impede its efforts to engage with global society.

Brethren by Nature

Brethren by Nature
Author: Margaret Ellen Newell
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2015-11-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801456479

In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians. Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists' desire for slaves shaped the major New England Indian wars, including the Pequot War of 1637, King Philip's War of 1675–76, and the northeastern Wabanaki conflicts of 1676–1749. When the wartime conquest of Indians ceased, New Englanders turned to the courts to get control of their labor, or imported Indians from Florida and the Carolinas, or simply claimed free Indians as slaves.Drawing on letters, diaries, newspapers, and court records, Newell recovers the slaves' own stories and shows how they influenced New England society in crucial ways. Indians lived in English homes, raised English children, and manned colonial armies, farms, and fleets, exposing their captors to Native religion, foods, and technology. Some achieved freedom and power in this new colonial culture, but others experienced violence, surveillance, and family separations. Newell also explains how slavery linked the fate of Africans and Indians. The trade in Indian captives connected New England to Caribbean and Atlantic slave economies. Indians labored on sugar plantations in Jamaica, tended fields in the Azores, and rowed English naval galleys in Tangier. Indian slaves outnumbered Africans within New England before 1700, but the balance soon shifted. Fearful of the growing African population, local governments stripped Indian and African servants and slaves of legal rights and personal freedoms. Nevertheless, because Indians remained a significant part of the slave population, the New England colonies did not adopt all of the rigid racial laws typical of slave societies in Virginia and Barbados. Newell finds that second- and third-generation Indian slaves fought their enslavement and claimed citizenship in cases that had implications for all enslaved peoples in eighteenth-century America.

Portrait of a People

Portrait of a People
Author: Carl Desportes Bowman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780871780850

Data from the Brethren Member Profile of 2006.

Global Alphabet

Global Alphabet
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1945
Genre: Alphabets
ISBN:

Encyclopedia of Protestantism

Encyclopedia of Protestantism
Author: Hans J. Hillerbrand
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 4119
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135960283

This Encyclopedia is the definitive reference to the history and beliefs that continue to exert a profound influence on Western thought.