Thomas Crosby and the Tsimshian
Small Shoes for Feet Too Large
Clarence Bolt demonstrates that the Aboriginal peoples of Canada were conscious participants in the acculturation and conversion process -- as long as this met their goals.
A Heart at Leisure from Itself
Caroline Macdonald of Japan
This book throws light on Japanese-Canadian relations in the first few decades of this century.
Positioning the Missionary
John Booth Good and the Confluence of Cultures in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia
This book examines Anglican missionary work in nineteenth-century British Columbia at several scales: the local ethnographic literature; histories of contact and conflict in mainland B.C. from the early nineteenth century; the theology and sociology of mission; and the recent critical literature on European colonialism.
Modern Women Modernizing Men
The Changing Missions of Three Professional Women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69
Explores how professionalism, religion, and feminism came together to enable missionary women to become the colleagues and mentors of Western and non-Western men.
Women and the White Man's God
Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field
Based on diaries, letters, and mission correspondence, this is the first comprehensive examination of women’s roles in Anglican missions that were active in northern British Columbia, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories between 1860 and 1940.
Healing Henan
Canadian Nurses at the North China Mission, 1888-1947
Set against a backdrop of war and revolution, this book brings sixty years of missionary nursing out of the shadows by examining how Canadian nurses shaped health care in the province of Henan and how China, in turn, influenced the nature of missionary nursing.
American Missionaries, Christian Oyatoi, and Japan, 1859-73
Investigates the impact of American Protestant missions on modern Japan and Japanese-American relations.
Xavier's Legacies
Catholicism in Modern Japanese Culture
By exposing Catholicism’s long-term influence in Japan, this volume disrupts conventional assumptions about tradition, modernity, and Christianity in the East and the West.
Prophetic Identities
Indigenous Missionaries on British Colonial Frontiers, 1850-75
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.