UID:
almafu_9958353143502883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781442672253
Content:
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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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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Part I. The Home Fields --
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1. Cultivating Christians in Colonial Canadian Missions --
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2. Mothers of the Empire: Maternal Metaphors in the Northern Canadian Mission Field --
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3. The Picturesqueness of His Accent and Speech': Methodist Missionary Narratives and William Henry Pierce's Autobiography --
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4. 'Eating the Angels' Food': Arthur Wellington Clah - An Aboriginal Perspective on Being Christian, 1857-1909 --
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Part II. Over the Seas and Far Away --
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5. Wallace of West China: Edward Wilson Wallace and the Canadian Educational Systems of China, 1906-1927 --
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6. 'Their Names May Not Shine': Narrating Chinese Christian Converts --
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7. Shifts in the Salience of Gender in the International Missionary Enterprise during the Interwar Years --
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8. Missions and Empires: A Case Study of Canadians in the Japanese Empire, 1895-1941 --
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Part III. Bringing It All Back Home --
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9. The Silent Eloquence of Things: The Missionary Collections and Exhibitions of the Society of Jesus in Quebec, 1843-1946 --
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10. Collecting Cultures: Canadian Missionaries, Pacific Islanders, and Museums --
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11. 'Curios' from a Strange Land: The Oceania Collections of the Reverend Joseph Annand --
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12. Finding God in Ancient China: James Mellon Menzies, Sinology, and Mission Policies --
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Contributors --
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Illustration Credits --
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Index
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.3138/9781442672253
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442672253
