John Slocum and the Indian Shaker Church

Ruby, Robert H. (Author). Brown, John A. (John Arthur), 1914-2004 (Added Author).

Summary: This richly detailed, well-documented history describes the life of the Squaxin spiritual leader John Slocum and the growth in the Pacific Northwest of his Indian Shaker Church (not to be confused with eastern Shakerism). Students of Native American religion and Christianity will find this a moving story both of assimilation and of the curing that is the Shaker Church's reason for being.

Record details

ISBN: 0806128658
ISBN: 9780806128658
Physical Description: print
xx, 300 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©1996.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-287) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / Richard A. Gould -- 1. John Slocum and the Beginnings of the Indian Shaker Church -- 2. Pacific Northwest Native Religion and Early Christian Missionaries -- 3. The World of John Slocum -- 4. Reviving a Struggling Church -- 5. The Formative Years of the Church -- 6. Healing the Sick -- 7. Worship and Ritual -- 8. A Mantle of Formality -- 9. A New Era -- 10. Extending the Boundaries -- 11. The Klamath Connection -- 12. Schism within the Indian Shaker Church -- 13. Schismatic Fallout -- 14. Ashes, Activists, and Attrition.