Missions and Conversion in Early North America. ((3 Credits))

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Prerequisite(s): ( HIST 2700 or HIST 3730 ) and ( ENGL 2010 with a grade of C+ or higher, or instructor approval) and University Advanced Standing Examines in a comparative perspective various European religious missionary enterprises in North America and their reception among Indians from the seventeenth century through the antebellum period. Surveys the origins, doctrines, methods, and changes over time of the Jesuit, Franciscan, Moravian, Puritan, and other Protestant missions, emphasizing the international and multicultural aspects of the missionary landscape in early America. Addresses the ways in which various Native American groups and individuals responded to these European missionary efforts.