Making a Joyful Noise
William Apess and the Search for Postcolonial Method(ism)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3344638 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura E Donaldson (Cornell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 180-198 |
| Publication date | 2005-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interventions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-801X • E-ISSN: 1469-929X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13698010500146740 |
| OpenAlex | W1545442605 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 31 |
This article explores how early North American Methodism became a site of postcolonial negotiation between American Indians and Christianity. It particularly focuses on Methodism's thick orality through the figure of William Apess, a nineteenth-century Pequot, who became a convert to Methodism as well as one of this movement's itinerant preachers. Through the example of Apess, as well as an unnamed, seventeenth-century Mi'kmaw woman, the article argues that the available critical vocabularies for analyzing the Native-Christian encounter are inadequate: neither syncretism-acculturation nor postcolonial notions of hybridity capture the complexity of conversion's exchanges. The article proposes retraditionalization, a concept that emerges from indigenous theory, as an alternative to syncretism, acculturation or hybridity
Acculturation · Art · Christianity · Creolization · Ethnic group · Hybridity · Indigenous · Linguistics · Literature · Methodism · Negotiation · Social science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Anthropology · History · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Philosophy · Religious studies · Theological Perspectives and Practices
Introduction
The Voice in the Margin
Fits, Trances, and Visions
Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
Entangled Objects
Colonialism's culture
Postcolonial Representations
Subject to Negotiation
Divine Destiny
On Our Own Ground
Early American Methodism
A Southern Family on the Missouri Frontier
The Frontier Camp Meeting
Divine Destiny
Sisters of the Spirit
A Religious History of America
Outside the Fold
Entangled objects
Changing and diverse roles of women in American Indian cultures
The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800
The Frontier Camp Meeting
"Denominated "Savage
Engendering Discipline
The Predicament of Culture
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |