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. Ed(S): Austin, Alvyn J.; Scott, Jamie S. - Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples: Representing Religion at Home and Abroad - 9780802039514 - V9780802039514
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Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples: Representing Religion at Home and Abroad

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Description for Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples: Representing Religion at Home and Abroad hardcover. Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples contributes greatly to the understanding of missionaries not only as purveyors of western religious values, but also as vehicles for cultural exchange between Native and non-Native Canadians, as well as between Canadians and the indigenous peoples of other countries. Editor(s): Austin, Alvyn J.; Scott, Jamie S. Num Pages: 330 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HRCX7; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 616.

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 its legacy ... Read more

Broadly adopting a postcolonial perspective, Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples contributes greatly to the understanding of missionaries not only as purveyors of western religious values, but also as vehicles for cultural exchange between Native and non-Native Canadians, as well as between Canadians and the indigenous peoples of other countries.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
Number of Pages
330
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802039514
SKU
V9780802039514
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Ref
99-1

About . Ed(S): Austin, Alvyn J.; Scott, Jamie S.
Alvyn Austin is an adjunct professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto and the Department of History at Brock University. Jamie S. Scott is Director of the Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor in the Department of Humanities at York University.

Reviews for Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples: Representing Religion at Home and Abroad
This interdisciplinary collection is a valuable contribution to the field of mission studies, and to the fields of native, religious, and cultural studies more broadly.
Jennifer Bonnell, History of Education Program, Department of Theory and Policy Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto
H-net - www.h-net.msu.edu/

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