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Article: Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church.(Book Review)
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- December 1, 2004
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Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church. By Bonnie Sue Lewis. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xx + 281 pp. $34.95 cloth.
Studies of world Christianity, missiology, and the cultural embodiment of religion have marked a rapidly growing field of research in recent years. Mission work among Native American peoples has received attention as part of that trend, and Bonnie Sue Lewis makes a significant contribution to that literature with this book. Her study focuses on Presbyterian mission and church growth among the Nez Perce and Dakota from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. The pointed nature of the work allows ...