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Unangan Orthodox Christianity: Conversion Through Similarity, Robert Daley
Unangan Orthodox Christianity: Conversion Through Similarity, Robert Daley
Master of Arts in Humanities | Master's Theses 1936 - 2022
Between 1741, when Russians first entered the Aleutian archipelago, to 1867, when Russia sold Alaska to the United States, virtually the entire Aleutian indigenous population, the Unangan peoples, having been minimally missionized and influenced only by traders, had subsumed their ancient religious beliefs and practices into a new framework and converted to Russian Orthodox Christianity. This, despite the fact that by 1800, murder, disease and forced labor at the hands of the Russian traders were major causes of a near-extinction-level Unangan population decline of eighty percent.
This thesis will argue that, despite the injustices suffered by the Unangax at Russian …
The Christian Bible And Tribalism (Or, How The God Of Israel Became The God Of The Gentiles And Some Implications For Today: Six Lectures) [Lecture Notes], Scott Gambrill Sinclair (Retired)
The Christian Bible And Tribalism (Or, How The God Of Israel Became The God Of The Gentiles And Some Implications For Today: Six Lectures) [Lecture Notes], Scott Gambrill Sinclair (Retired)
The Scott Sinclair Lecture Notes Collection
Lecture notes from Scott G. Sinclair