Date of Award
5-2013
Thesis Date
5-2013
Degree Type
Honors Thesis-Unrestricted
Degree Name
B.A.
Department
History
Degree Program
History
Director
Andrea Mosterman
Abstract
Historians have written extensively about the process of Christianization within the Kongo nation, as well as among the Native Americans of Lower Canada. Scholars agree that this process was disparate across the Atlantic World. This paper explores the process within each region through the analysis of two dominant missionary accounts representing each region during the late seventeenth century. These missionary accounts are joined with the stories of Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and Catherine Tegahkouita, two notable indigenous Christians from each region. A comparative analysis of Kongo and Lower Canada reveals that the process of Christianization is highly dependent upon the social and political location of its indigenous converts. This paper argues that the experience of Christianization among indigenous people was neither homogenous across nations nor within them.
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Recommended Citation
Dauterive, Jessica, "The Effects of Chistianization on Identity among the Indigenous Communities of Kongo and Lower Canada" (2013). Senior Honors Theses. 35.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/35
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