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I Will Fear No Evil Susan Elaine Gray

I Will Fear No Evil By Susan Elaine Gray

I Will Fear No Evil by Susan Elaine Gray


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Offers a perspective on missionary-aboriginal encounters between the Berens River Ojibwa & Christian missionaries between 1875 & 1940 moving beyond a simple chronicle of the introduction & adoption of Christian elements by the Ojibwa to recognise & highlight the complicated ebb & flow of ideas & beliefs between these two groups.

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I Will Fear No Evil: Ojibwa-Missionary Encounters Along the Berens River, 1875-1940 by Susan Elaine Gray

The history of Christian missions in Canada has traditionally been told only from the point of view of the missionaries, and not those they were attempting to convert. In I Will Fear No Evil , Susan Gray offers a new perspective on missionary-aboriginal encounters between the Berens River Ojibwa and Methodist and Catholic missionaries between 1875 and 1940. Supplementing her historical research with conversations and interviews with Berens River elders, Gray explores the ways in which Christian beliefs have become incorporated into the traditional Ojibwa worldview. The Ojibwa were active participants in these missionary encounters. They accepted those missionaries who treated them with sensitivity and respect and integrated Christian beliefs and practices into their established belief system. Today, a blend of Christian and Ojibwa ideas is still interwoven in the lives of Berens River residents, with both traditions holding meaning and sincerity. Their uniquely adaptive religion sheds new light on our understanding of cultural contact and conversion, placing the indigenous experience of these events at centre stage.

I Will Fear No Evil Reviews

The great strength of this book is that it presents post-contact Anishinabe philosophy--in--action as a cultural product in its own rightnot as a hastily constructed bulwark against the deprivations of colonialism. Further, Gray casts off cliches about Native cultures, preferring to offer specific, meaningful assertions. Catherine Murton Stoehr, The Canadian Historical Review

About Susan Elaine Gray

Susan Elaine Gray is a Research Associate to the Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Peoples in an Urban and Regional Context at the University of Winnipeg.

Table of Contents

Foreword by the Very Reverend Dr. Stan McKay Preface Acknowledgements 1. Life Along the Berens River, 1875-1940 2. Listen to the Memegwesiwag Singing The Ojibwa World View 3. They Fought Just Like a Cat and a Dog! Catholic--Protestant Encounters on the Mission Field 4. Youare Pretty Good; but Iall Tell You What Medicine to Use Encounters Images and Map 5. I Got Pretty Close to the Flames That Time; Then I Woke Up Acceptances and Rejections, 1917--1940 6. Iave Had My Dreams all These Years Survivals and Integrations 7.I Will Fear No Evil Conclusions Appendix Cast of Characters Bibliography Notes Index

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CIN1552381986G
9781552381984
1552381986
I Will Fear No Evil: Ojibwa-Missionary Encounters Along the Berens River, 1875-1940 by Susan Elaine Gray
Used - Good
Paperback
University of Calgary Press
20061024
246
Winner of Manitoba Historical Society Margaret McWilliams Medal in Scholarly History 2006 Winner of Association for Manitoba Archives Manitoba Day Award. Winner of Margaret McWilliams Awards (Manitoba Historical Society) - Scholarly History category 2006
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