Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples : : Representing Religion at Home and Abroad /

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

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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 a...

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Austin, Alvyn J.,
Scott, Jamie S,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2004
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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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

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