Ryan Carr, <i>Samson Occom: Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast</i>

s provocative new book on Samsom Occom brings a literary/religious studies perspective to the career of the famous eighteenth-century Mohegan minister.Occom's remarkable life was largely preserved for us by his own proli c inclination to record his experience in journals, sermons, le ers, and song, leaving behind a surprisingly large oeuvre for an Indigenous gure of this period.Carr is not focused, however, on retracing the highlights of Occom's life.His most important insights are centered on Occom's theological outlook.Previous scholars, Carr suggests, have tended to view Occom's Christian belief in a mostly generic manner, failing to appreciate how his views were founded in the minutia of eighteenth-century protestant factionalism and deep readings of the Pauline books of the New Testament.Understanding these ner points of Occom's theological outlook have implications for Occom's own sense of traditional Indigenous identity.