In this contemporary ethnography, Jack M. Schultz examines the role of religion in one American Indian society: the Seminole Baptists of Oklahoma. Basing his study on four years of fieldwork, Schultz shows how the Seminole Baptist church system helps maintain a traditional community. The people Schultz encountered are Baptist. They gather several times weekly in steepled churches for prayers, hymn singing, and sermons based on biblical texts. But they also are Seminole, conducting services primarily in the Mvskoke language and practicing Native customs, such as fasting in the woods and constructing grave houses to shelter the spirit as it returns to visit the body. Schultz provides a context for his study by tracing the history of the Seminole to the present day. He then discusses Seminole Baptist beliefs and practices, leadership roles, and the church's organizational structure, illustrating his observations with a detailed account of the social life of a single congregation.
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Jack M. Schultz is Professor of Anthropology at Con cordial University, Irvine, California.
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congregational face, deacon trainee, corrective interchange, situational proprieties, ordination board, host congregation, head deacon, camp houses, church system, meeting weekend, acculturation models, corporate face, grounds participants, prayer grounds, floor members, corrective process, medicine maker, ceremonial grounds, medicine songs, one deacon Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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congregational face, deacon trainee, corrective interchange, situational proprieties, ordination board, host congregation, head deacon, camp houses, church system, meeting weekend, acculturation models, corporate face, grounds participants, prayer grounds, floor members, corrective process, medicine maker, ceremonial grounds, medicine songs, one deacon Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Seminole Baptist, Prayer Meetings, Big Meeting, Fourth Sunday Meetings, Indian Territory, Oklahoma Seminoles, Seminole County, Spring Church, Jesus Christ, Nvrkvpv Hvcce, Eufaula Church, Sand Creek, Green Corn Festival, Native American, Anglo Baptist, Fort Gibson, Seminole Stomp, United States, The People Who Pray, Upper Creeks, Cold Springs, Spanish Florida, World War, Dawes Commission, Efau Haujo New!
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- Road to Disappearance: History of the Creek Indians (Civilization of American Indian) by Angie Debo on page 21, and Back Matter
- Early History of the Creek Indians by John R. Swanton on page 20, and Back Matter
- Oklahoma Seminoles, Medicines, Magic, and Religion (Civilization of the American Indian) by James H. Howard on page 22, and Back Matter
- And Still the Waters Run by Angie Debo on page 21, and Back Matter
- Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians by Grant Foreman on page 21, and Back Matter
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