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B.K. Smith Lecture with Dr. Joel W. Martin
Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
The University of St. Thomas History Department presents the B.K. Smith Lecture featuring Dr. Joel W. Martin, a distinguished Professor of History, on March 11 in Cullen Hall. Dr. Martin's lecture topic will be "Native Americans, Christianity and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape."
Dr. Martin is the Vice Provost for Academic Personnel and Dean of the Faculty, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
In various scholarly fields, including American history, literary studies, religious studies, and Native American studies, a serious reconsideration of Native converts is underway. Scholars are questioning generalizations of converts as inauthentic "sell-outs" or as powerless victims. This lecture examines the intellectual foundations and influences driving this reconsideration, and shares some of the intriguing new findings and perspectives that are emerging. The overall trend is to envisage Native Americans as dynamic, historical actors changing others and changing themselves in the context of contact and colonialism. In short, a new capacious and open "analytic space" has been crafted that takes Native Christians and everyone else seriously, including missionaries. Interestingly enough, this new analytic space finally provides to Native Christians the kind of recognition for complexity extended to other converts to Christianity in other times and places.
| Cost |
Free and open to the public |
| Location |
Cullen Hall |
| Address |
4001 Mt. Vernon |
| Contact |
Irving Kelter 713-525-3192 |
| Sponsored By |
University of St. Thomas History Department |
| Flyer |
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