| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

The Solidarity of Kin: Ethnohistory, Religious Studies, and the Algonkian-French Religious Encounter. By Kenneth M. Morrison. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. x, 243 pp. Cloth, $65.50, ISBN 0-7914-5405-3. Paper, $21.95,ISBN 0-7914-5406-1.)

Prospective readers of The Solidarity of Kin ought to be prepared for a challenge. This is not an easy or accessible text, but it is a provocative one, and it challenges us to reconsider the ways in which we have interpreted Algonkian conversions to Christianity. In fact, Professor Kenneth M. Morrison makes a compelling argument that the idea of conversion itself is an inappropriate way of interpreting the changes that contact with the Europeans brought to Algonkian spirituality. According to the argument, old beliefs were more strongly held than we have imagined; Algonkians were possessed of an innate spiritual conservatism, and they forcibly resisted the efforts of the Jesuits and others. Such changes in views or spirituality that did occur are more properly considered as adaptations than as conversions.

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