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Book Review
| The Heavens are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity. By Susan Neylan. (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2003. xvii + 401 pp. Illustrations, tables, charts, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00.)
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In response to recent books on missionaries in the West, reviewers and readers have consistently asked one simple question: what was the Indian/Native response to Christianity? Neylan's The Heavens are Changing not only addresses the Tsimshian's varied responses to Christianity, but also places these responses and the missionaries' reactions to them within a colonial context. This work heralds the beginning of a new era of scholarship on contact between Native peoples and missionaries. |
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