Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples Representing Religion at Home and Abroad

Name: Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples Representing Religion at Home and Abroad
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ISBN: 9780802039514

ISBN-10: 0802039510

ISBN-13: 9780802039514

Edition: 2nd 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Alvyn J. Austin, Jamie S. Scott

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Christian missions and missionaries have had a distinctive role in Canada's cultural history. With Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples, Alvyn Austin and Jamie S. Scott have brought together new and established Canadian scholars to examine the encounters between Christian (Roman Catholic and Protestant) missionaries and the indigenous peoples with whom they worked in nineteenth-and twentieth-century domestic and overseas missions. This tightly integrated collection is divided into three sections. The first contains essays on missionaries and converts in western Canada and in the arctic. The essays in the second section investigate various facets of the Canadian missionary presence and…

Book details

List price: $77.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 10/8/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 330
Size: 6.15" wide x 9.32" long x 1.13" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

Jamie S. Scott is Director of the Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor in the Department of Humanities at York University.



Introduction




Cultivating Christians in colonial Canadian missions




Mothers of the empire : maternal metaphors in the northern Canadian mission field




'The picturesqueness of his accent and speech' : Methodist missionary narratives and William Henry Pierce's autobiography




'Eating the angels' food' : Arthur Wellington Clah - an aboriginal perspective on being Christian, 1857-1909




Wallace of west China : Edward Wilson Wallace and the Canadian educational systems of China, 1906-1927




'Their names may not shine' : narrating Chinese Christian converts




Shifts in the salience of gender in the international missionary enterprise during the interwar years




Missions and empires : a case study of Canadians in the Japanese empire, 1895-1941




The silent eloquence of things : the missionary collections and exhibitions of the Society of Jesus in Quebec, 1843-1946




Collecting cultures : Canadian missionaries, Pacific Islanders, and museums




'Curios' from a strange land : the Oceania collections of the Reverend Joseph Annand