Prophets of the Great Spirit Greg Fealy Somerset Maugham-inspired colonial tales set

Somerset Maugham-inspired colonial tales set in 1920s Malaya

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Prophets of the Great Spirit Greg Fealy Somerset Maugham-inspired colonial tales setProphets of the Great Spirit offers an in depth look at the work of a diverse group of Native American visionaries who forged new, syncretic religious movements that provided their peoples with the ideological means to resist white domination. By blending ideas borrowed from Christianity with traditional beliefs, they transformed "high" gods or a distant and aloof creator into a powerful activist deity that came to be called the Great Spirit. These