Canadian missionaries, indigenous peoples representing religion at home and abroad / edited by Alvyn Austin and Jamie S. Scott.

Other author Austin, Alvyn, 1945-
Other author Scott, Jamie S.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoToronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press,
Descriptionviii, 326 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
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Contents Cultivating Christians in colonial Canadian missions / Jamie S. Scott -- Mothers of the empire: maternal metaphors in the northern Canadian mission field / Myra Rutherdale -- 'The picturesqueness of his accent and speech': Methodist missionary narratives and William Henry Pierce's autobiography / Gail Edwards -- 'Eating the angels' food': Arthur Wellington Clah: an aboriginal perspective on being Christian, 1857-1909 / Susan Neylan -- Wallace of West China: Edward Wilson Wallace and the Canadian educational systems of China, 1906-1927 / Alvyn Austin -- 'Their names may not shine': narrating Chinese Christian converts / Margo S. Gewurtz -- Shifts in the salience of gender in the international missionary enterprise during the interwar years / Ruth Compton Brouwer -- Missions and empires: a case study of Canadians in the Japanese empire, 1895-1941 / A. Hamish Ion -- The silent eloquence of things: the missionary collections and exhibitions of the Society of Jesus in Quebec, 1843-1946 / France Lord -- Collecting cultures: Canadian missionaries, Pacific Islanders, and museums / Barbara Lawson -- 'Curios' from a strange land: the Oceania collections of the Reverend Joseph Annand / Arthur M. Smith -- Finding God in ancient China: James Mellon Menzies, sinology, and mission policies / Linfu Dong.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2006271844
ISBN0802039510 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0802037844 (pbk. : alk paper)

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