William Apess, Pequot Pastor: A Native American Revisioning of Christian Nationalism in the Early Republic
Pequot Native and Methodist Minister William Apess has received growing recognition among historians as a unique voice for Native Americansand minorities in generalduring the early Republic. This essay began by inquiring into Apess's relationship with the Christian nationalism of his day. Ext...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2017]
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Religions
Year: 2017, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-17 |
| Further subjects: | B
Methodism
B William Apess B Divine Providence B Puritans B Christian Nationalism B Pilgrims B Jacksonian era B Common Law |
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| Summary: | Pequot Native and Methodist Minister William Apess has received growing recognition among historians as a unique voice for Native Americansand minorities in generalduring the early Republic. This essay began by inquiring into Apess's relationship with the Christian nationalism of his day. Extensive readings of Apess's works, scholarship on all aspects of Apess's life, and analyses of Christian nationalism during the early Republic initially revealed severe conflict. Apess is fiery in his critique of Anglo American society and religion; he questions the integrity of Christians who treat Native Americans with a double standard. Analyzing Apess's critiques and his proposed solutions in depth, however, shows that his main problem rests with faulty implementation of genuinely good ideals. Apess's solutions actually rest on revising and enforcing, not destroying, the main components of Christian nationalism. This essay concludes that Apess should be read as advancing his own revised form of Christian nationalism; his plan for the future of America and national unity embraced establishing a more perfect Christian union. |
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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel8020018 |