{"product_id":"making-war-and-minting-christians-masculinity-religion-and-colonialism-in-early-new-england-9781558498884","title":"Making War and Minting Christians: Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New England","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): R. Todd Romero | R. Romero\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Native American Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, R. Todd Romero traces the interaction of notions of gender, the practice of religion, and the conduct of warfare in colonial America. He shows how Native and Anglo-American ideas of manhood developed in counterpoint, in the context of Christian evangelization, colonial expansion, and recurrent armed conflict. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the English, the cultivation of manliness became an important aspect of missionary efforts. Conversion demanded that the English \"\u003ci\u003emake\u003c\/i\u003e men\" of the Indians before they could \"\u003ci\u003emake\u003c\/i\u003e them Christians,\" a process that involved reshaping Native masculinity according to English patriarchal ideals that the colonists themselves rarely matched. For their part, Native Americans held on to older ways of understanding the divine and defining gender even as they entered English \"praying towns\" and negotiated the steep demands of the missionaries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvolving ideas of masculinity resonated with religious significance and shaped the meaning of warfare for Natives and colonists alike. Just as the English believed that their territorial expansion was divinely sanctioned, Indians attributed a string of victories in King Philip's War to \"the Great God\" and the perception that their enemies \"were like women.\" Trusting that war and manliness were necessarily linked, both groups engaged in ritual preparations for battle, believed deeply in the efficacy of the supernatural to affect the outcome of combat, and comprehended the meaning of war in distinctly religious ways.","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47565177356439,"sku":"9781558498884","price":3021.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781558498884.webp?v=1774697482","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/making-war-and-minting-christians-masculinity-religion-and-colonialism-in-early-new-england-9781558498884","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}