RT Article
T1 Literacy and Awakening: The Awakening of 1804/1805 in Hopedale, Labrador
JF Journal of Moravian history
VO 20
IS 2
SP 125
OP 148
A1 Rollmann, Hans 1948-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1741476348
AB This exploration of literacy and awakening draws attention to the fact that the learning of hymns and the translation of the Passion narrative of the Gospels were instrumental in the acceptance of the Moravian faith among the Labrador Inuit. Literacy, made possible through systematic schooling since 1780, was thus an important factor in the awakening of 1804/5 in Hopedale and contributed to the indigenization of Christianity in the eighteenth-century Moravian settlements of Nain, Okak, and Hopedale. During the awakening a significant shift occurred in the religious self-understanding of the Labrador Inuit when people moved from a relatively superficial understanding of Christianity as a remedy for personal lapses and violations to an existential understanding of the drama of sin and salvation as well as a deeper identification with the religious community. The study also points out the fact that communication through written epistles between Labrador and Greenland may have established a wider religious bond of solidarity between Greenland and Labrador Inuit and encouraged the Hopedale Inuit during their awakening.
K1 Inuit
K1 Labrador
K1 Passion Piety
K1 Awakening
K1 Literacy
DO 10.5325/jmorahist.20.2.0125