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1 online resource (viii, 326 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cultivating Christians in colonial Canadian missions / Jamie S. Scott -- Mothers of the empire: maternal metaphors in the northern Canadian mission field / Myra Rutherdale -- 'The picturesqueness of his accent and speech': Methodist missionary narratives and William Henry Pierce's autobiography / Gail Edwards -- 'Eating the angels' food': Arthur Wellington Clah: an aboriginal perspective on being Christian, 1857-1909 / Susan Neylan -- Wallace of West China: Edward Wilson Wallace and the Canadian educational systems of China, 1906-1927 / Alvyn Austin -- 'Their names may not shine': narrating Chinese Christian converts / Margo S. Gewurtz -- Shifts in the salience of gender in the international missionary enterprise during the interwar years / Ruth Compton Brouwer -- Missions and empires: a case study of Canadians in the Japanese empire, 1895-1941 / A. Hamish Ion -- Silent eloquence of things: the missionary collections and exhibitions of the Society of Jesus in Quebec, 1843-1946 / France Lord -- Collecting cultures: Canadian missionaries, Pacific Islanders, and museums / Barbara Lawson -- 'Curios' from a strange land: the Oceania collections of the Reverend Joseph Annand / Arthur M. Smith -- Finding God in ancient China: James Mellon Menzies, sinology, and mission policies / Linfu Dong. |
| Summary |
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 in east Asia, India, and Africa. The third section examines the motives and methods of missionaries as important contributors to Canadian museum holdings of artefacts from Huronia, Kahnawaga, and Alaska, as well as China and the South Pacific. 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Missions, Canadian -- History.
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Missions, Canadian. |
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History. |
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Missionaries -- Canada -- History.
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Missionaries. |
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Canada. |
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Missions -- Canada -- History.
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Missions. |
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Christian converts -- History.
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Christian converts. |
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Missions, Canadian -- History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Austin, Alvyn, 1945-
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Scott, Jamie S.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Canadian missionaries, indigenous peoples. Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2005 (DLC) 2006271844 |
| ISBN |
9781442672253 (electronic book) |
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1442672250 (electronic book) |
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1282029231 |
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9781282029231 |
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0802039510 (bound) |
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0802037844 (paperback) |
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9780802039514 |
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