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This case study of a pietist religious group offers accounts of the lives of Bruderhof apostates who foundered over issues of faith, and relates these crises to the central tenets of Bruderhof theology, their spirituality, and community life.

Bruderhof Communities --- Depression, Mental --- Dejection --- Depression, Unipolar --- Depressive disorder --- Depressive psychoses --- Melancholia --- Mental depression --- Unipolar depression --- Affective disorders --- Neurasthenia --- Neuroses --- Manic-depressive illness --- Melancholy --- Sadness --- Hutterian Brethren (Bruderhof) --- Hutterian Society of Brothers (Bruderhof) --- Society of Brothers, Hutterian (Bruderhof) --- Christian sects --- Membership. --- Epidemiology. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History of doctrines. --- Bipolar disorder

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Tears of Repentance revisits and reexamines the familiar stories of intercultural encounters between Protestant missionaries and Native peoples in southern New England from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Focusing on Protestant missionaries' accounts of their ideals, purposes, and goals among the Native communities they served and of the religion as lived, experienced, and practiced among Christianized Indians, Julius H. Rubin offers a new way of understanding the motives and motivations of those who lived in New England's early Christianized Indian village communi

Indians of North America --- Evangelism --- Christianity and culture --- Christianity and other religions --- Christianity --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Religions --- Contextualization (Christian theology) --- Culture and Christianity --- Inculturation (Christian theology) --- Indigenization (Christian theology) --- Culture --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Proselytizing --- Revival (Religion) --- Theology, Practical --- Discipling (Christianity) --- Religious awakening --- History --- History. --- Ethnic identity. --- Missions --- Religion. --- Relations --- Ethnology --- New England --- Evangelistic work

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"Perishing Heathens examines the missionary men and women who between 1800 and 1830 responded to the call to save Native peoples in missions, including the Osages in the Arkansas Territory; Cherokees in Tennessee and Georgia; and Ojibwe peoples in the Michigan Territory."--Provided by publisher.

Indians of North America --- Missionaries --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Religion. --- Missions --- History --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Religion and mythology --- Indianen van Noord-Amerika --- Missionarissen --- Godsdienst --- Missies --- Geschiedenis --- Verenigde Staten --- Biografie