Choosing the Jesus way : American Indian Pentecostals and the fight for the indigenous principle /
Angela Tarango.
- First edition.
- xii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-210) and index.
Introduction: Native Pentecostals, the indigenous principle, and religious practice -- The indigenous principle : Pentecostal missionary theology and the birth of the Assemblies of God's Home Missions to American Indians -- The indigenous principle on the ground : American Indians, white missionaries, and the building of missions -- The lived indigenous principle : new understandings of Pentecostal healing, Native culture, and Pentecostal Indian identity -- Institutionalizing the indigenous principle : the American Indian College and Mesa View Assembly of God -- The fight for national power and the indigenous principle : the development of the Indian representative position and the Native American fellowship -- Epilogue: American Indian Pentecostals in the twenty-first century.
Indians of North America--Missions. Indians of North America--Religion. Pentecostal converts--North America. Christianity and other religions--North America. Christianity and culture--North America.