Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples
Subtitle: Representing Religion at Home and Abroad
Contributors: Alvyn Austin (Editor); Jamie S. Scott (Editor)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: October 8, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780802039514
Subjects: Christian mission & evangelism; Cultural studies; Missionaries; History; History - General History; History: World; Canada; Missions & Missionary Work; Canada - General; History / Canada; Christian Ministry - Missions; Missions, Canadian
First sentence: In a seminal statement of the policy which dominated the nineteenth-century evangelizing of the Christian Missionary Society (CMS), Henry Venn, the society's chief secretary in its formative years, 1841-72, couches his celebrated 'three-self' principles in these terms: If the elementary principles of self-support and self-government and self-extension be thus sown with the seed of the Gospel, we may hope to see the healthy growth and expansion of the Native Church, when the Spirit is poured down from on high, as the flowers of the fertile field multiply under the showers and warmth of summer.
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." "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."--BOOK JACKET.