The Making of the First Iroquois Virgin
Early Jesuit Biographies of the Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2739604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K I Koppedrayer, Kay Koppedrayer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 277 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnohistory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/482204 |
| OpenAlex | W2314162801 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
On 22 June 1980, Pope John Paul II beatified Kateri Tekakwitha, an Amerindian woman who have lived in the middle part of the 17th century. Most of our knowledge of Kateri comes from a series of pious biographies compiled by members of the Jesuit Order, the same order that claims responsibility for her conversion to Christianity. The earliest dates to 1680, the year of Kateri's death. This paper explores the process by which these early missionaries created Kateri Tekakwitha. It suggests that her life story is paradigmatic of one European response to the problem of the New World and its habitants
Art · Genealogy · History · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Theology and Canon Law Studies
Bibliographie d’histoire de l’Amérique française
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In This Separation
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Contract and Usurpation
Disrupting a Settler-Colonial Grammar of Place
The Ancestors We Get to Choose
There Is a River in Me
A “true story … of evils overcome”
Jesuit Mission Products and Object Biography
Native Studies at the Horizon of Death
Making Peoples into Populations
Indigenous Transnationalism and the Aids Pandemic
Contradictions of indigeneity in the symbol and cult(ure) of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
Context Matters
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,48 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2023 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |