Häftad, Engelska, 2013
Prophetic Identities
Indigenous Missionaries on British Colonial Frontiers, 1850-75
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The spread of Christianity is often told as a story of conquest, of powerful European missionaries waging a cultural assault on hapless indigenous victims. Yet the presence of indigenous men among missionary ranks in the nineteenth century complicates these narratives. What compelled these individuals to embrace Christianity? How did they reconcile being both Christian and indigenous in an age of empire?
Tolly Bradford finds answers to these questions in the lives and legacies of Henry Budd, a Cree missionary from western Canada, and Tiyo Soga, a Xhosa missionary from southern Africa. Inspired by both faith and family, these men found in Christianity a way to construct a modern conception of indigeneity, one informed by their ties to Britain and rooted in land and language, rather than religion and lifestyle. Prophetic Identities portrays indigenous missionaries not as victims of colonialism but rather as people who made conscious, difficult choices about their spirituality, identity, and relationship with the British colonial world.Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2013-01-01
- Mått: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
- Vikt: 360 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 236
- Förlag: University of British Columbia Press
- ISBN: 9780774822800
- Utmärkelser: Short-listed for Aboriginal History Prize, Canadian Historical Association 2013 (Canada)
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Tolly Bradford is an assistant professor of history at Concordia University College of Alberta in Edmonton.
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Tolly Bradford is among very few historians to compare the spread of British colonization and mission Christianity in nineteenth-century North America and Southern Africa. This thoroughly researched and well-written book examines what it meant to be indigenous and Christian at a time of violent and exploitive European colonial conquest and portrays indigenous missionaries Henry Budd of western Canada and Tiyo Soga of the Eastern Cape as active agents with minds of their own. - Timothy J. Stapleton, Professor of History, Trent University
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