American Indian liberation : a theology of sovereignty

Book

American Indian liberation : a theology of sovereignty / George E. "Tink" Tinker.

Summary:

""Tink" Tinker describes the oppression suffered by American Indians since the arrival of European colonists, who brought a different worldview across the ocean and attempted to convert the Native population to the religion they also imported. The methodology, language, and understandings of the Christian beliefs of the colonists - and of the majority society since the colonial period - largely failed to Christianize the Native population." "Different conceptual frameworks and different understandings of terms made (and make) Christian doctrine unappealing and at times incomprehensible to Indians. Tinker focuses in particular on differing understandings of Jesus Christ and of the land."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9781570758058
ISBN: 1570758050
Physical Description: vi, 170 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, [2008]
Copyright: ©2008

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-165) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Historic pain and the political present : pointing to a healthy future -- Struggle, resistance, liberation, and theological methodology : Indigenous peoples and the two-thirds world -- Creation, justice, and peace : Indians, Christianity, and Trinitarian theologies -- Ecojustice and American Indian sovereignty -- Christology and colonialism : Jesus, Corn Mother, and conquest -- Abjection, violence, missions, and American Indians : missionary conquest in an age of pluralism -- American Indian liberation : paddling a canoe upstream -- Culture and domination : a "postcolonial" quandary.