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Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples

Representing Religion at Home and Abroad

edited by Alvyn J. Austin & Jamie S. Scott

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2005
Category
General, Missions
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802039514
    Publish Date
    Oct 2005
    List Price
    $102.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802037848
    Publish Date
    Oct 2005
    List Price
    $45.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442672253
    Publish Date
    Sep 2005
    List Price
    $99.00

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Description

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.

About the authors

Alvyn Austin is an adjunct professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto and the Department of History at Brock University.

Alvyn J. Austin's profile page

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

Jamie S. Scott's profile page

Editorial Reviews

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.

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