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The Indian Great Awakening Summary

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The book The Indian Great Awakening by Linford Fisher is part of the scholarly work on involvement to Christianity of the Native American. A lot of this work, for now, has addressed individuals as well as groups of people. The writer takes a broad scope of the engagement of conversion to Christianity especially in the New England which involved Connecticut, Long Island, Rhode Island as well as west of Massachusetts. This took place between the year 1700 and 1820. This great awakening focuses on the change, growth, and patterns of Indian involvement in Christian matters with less emphasis on the roughness or smoothness of Native religion encounters. To comprehensively bring out the whole picture of the Indian Great Awakening, Fisher writes on …show more content…

Putting this awakening in the context of loss of land as well as the fight for equality in the culture which is ongoing in the eighteen century shows it as an additional level in the continuing collaboration of the local people with the views of Christians as well as the educational institutions which dominated the colonial world. Revealing this narrative that cannot be easily shared of the Great Awakening as well as the idea of separation of Indians which resulted, and how it affects the culture of Indians as a community. Linford 's books which are gracefully written gives a significant challenge to thoughts which have been held for long as far as faith and Native Anglo-American engagements in concerned (Fisher, 2012)
In conclusion, Linford in his book The Indian Great Awakening uses various themes to iron out this issue leaving us with no questions comprehensively. It is evident that the Christian colonies influenced Native Indians and wooed then into adopting Christianity as well as their education system.
References
Fisher, L. D. (2012). Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America. In L. D. Fisher, The Indian Great Awakening (p. 51). New York: Oxford University Press.
Fisher, L. D. (2012). The Indian Great Awakening. New York: Oxford University Press.
Wheeler, R. M. (2012). Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America. In L. D. Fisher, The Indian Great Awakening (p. 312). New York: Oxford University

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