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Prophetic Identities: Indigenous Missionaries on British Colonial Frontiers, 1850-75
Tolly Bradford
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Description for Prophetic Identities: Indigenous Missionaries on British Colonial Frontiers, 1850-75
Paperback. An exploration of how two missionaries in southern Africa and western Canada used their faith and ties to Britain to rearticulate the meaning of indigeneity. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJK; HRCX7; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 360.
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 ... Read moreProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774822800
SKU
V9780774822800
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About Tolly Bradford
Tolly Bradford is an assistant professor of history at Concordia University College of Alberta in Edmonton.
Reviews for Prophetic Identities: Indigenous Missionaries on British Colonial Frontiers, 1850-75
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 ... Read more