Choosing the Jesus Way: American Indian Pentecostals and the Fight for the Indigenous Principle

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choosing the Jesus way This page intentionally left blank angela tarango choosing the Jesus way American Indian Pentecostals and the Fight for the Indigenous Principle The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill This book was published with the assistance of the Authors Fund of the University of North Carolina Press.© 2014 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Designed by Michelle Coppedge Wallen. Set in Arnhem by Integrated Book Technology. Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tarango, Angela. Choosing the Jesus way : American Indian Pentecostals and the fight for the indigenous principle / Angela Tarango. — First edition. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-1-4696-1292-8 (pbk : alk. paper) isbn 978-1-4696-1293-5 (ebook) 1. Indians of North America—Missions. 2. Indians of North America—Religion. 3. Pentecostal converts—North America. 4. Assemblies of God—Missions—North America. 5. Christianity and other religions—North America. 6. Christianity and culture—North America. 7. North America—Religious life and customs. I. Title. e98.m6t27 2014 299.7—dc23 2013038008 Portions of this work have appeared earlier, in somewhat different form, as “Jesus as the ‘Great Physician’: Pentecostal Native North Americans within the Assemblies of God and New Understandings of Pentecostal Healing,” in Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing, ed. Candy Gunther Brown, 107–26 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press, USA; and “Native American Pentecostalism,” in The Handbook of Pentecostal Christianity, ed. Adam Stewart, 147–50 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2012), © 2012 by Northern Illinois University Press, used with permission of Northern Illinois University Press. 18 17 16 15 14 5 4 3 2 1 For my mother and father, yolanda l. tarango and jesus tarango jr. This page intentionally left blank ...