Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples : : Representing Religion at Home and Abroad / / Jamie S Scott, Alvyn J. Austin.

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• TeilnehmendeR: Austin, Alvyn J.,; Scott, Jamie S,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Austin, Alvyn / Scott, Jamie S. -- Part I. The Home Fields -- 1. Cultivating Christians in Colonial Canadian Missions / Scott, Jamie S. -- 2. Mothers of the Empire: Maternal Metaphors in the Northern Canadian Mission Field -- 3. The Picturesqueness of His Accent and Speech': Methodist Missionary Narratives and William Henry Pierce's Autobiography / Edwards, Gail -- 4. 'Eating the Angels' Food': Arthur Wellington Clah - An Aboriginal Perspective on Being Christian, 1857-1909 / Neylan, Susan -- Part II. Over the Seas and Far Away -- 5. Wallace of West China: Edward Wilson Wallace and the Canadian Educational Systems of China, 1906-1927 / Austin, Alvyn -- 6. 'Their Names May Not Shine': Narrating Chinese Christian Converts / Gewurtz, Margo S. -- 7. Shifts in the Salience of Gender in the International Missionary Enterprise during the Interwar Years / Compton Brouwer, Ruth -- 8. Missions and Empires: A Case Study of Canadians in the Japanese Empire, 1895-1941 / Ion, A. Hamish -- Part III. Bringing It All Back Home -- 9. The Silent Eloquence of Things: The Missionary Collections and Exhibitions of the Society of Jesus in Quebec, 1843-1946 / Lord, France -- 10. Collecting Cultures: Canadian Missionaries, Pacific Islanders, and Museums / Lawson, Barbara -- 11. 'Curios' from a Strange Land: The Oceania Collections of the Reverend Joseph Annand / Smith, Arthur M. -- 12. Finding God in Ancient China: James Mellon Menzies, Sinology, and Mission Policies / Dong, Linfu -- Contributors -- Illustration Credits -- Index