{"product_id":"canadian-missionaries-indigenous-peoples-representing-religion-at-home-and-abroad-9780802037848","title":"Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples: Representing Religion at Home and Abroad","description":"\u003cp\u003eChristian missions and missionaries have had a distinctive role in Canada's cultural history. With \u003ci\u003eCanadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBroadly adopting a postcolonial perspective, \u003ci\u003eCanadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alvyn Austin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.97d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802037848\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScott, Jamie S.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJamie S. Scott\u003c\/b\u003e is Director of the Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor in the Department of Humanities at York University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40136300822643,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":44.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_81a09f30-c2be-410b-baca-e9379af1b902.jpg?v=1654263139","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/canadian-missionaries-indigenous-peoples-representing-religion-at-home-and-abroad-9780802037848","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}