| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Alvyn Austin and Jamie S. Scott, editors. Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples: Representing Religion at Home and Abroad. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 2005. Pp. viii, 326. Cloth $65.00, paper $29.95.

In recent years, Canadian religious historians have engaged in a wide-ranging historiographical reassessment of Christian missions. Influenced by new, international, theoretical insights provided by historians of gender, race, and postcolonial identities, a number of Canadian scholars have shifted their attention from the conventional oscillation of praising or denouncing missionaries to focus on the ambiguous and complex nature on the cross-cultural exchange and interaction between Euro-Canadian versions of Christianity and the multifarious ways in which these were understood, appropriated, and re-expressed by aboriginal peoples within Canada and communities of Christian converts in China, Japan, and India, the major sites of overseas Canadian missionary endeavor by both Protestant and Catholic churches. This collection of essays, edited by Alvyn Austin and Jamie S. Scott, ranges widely from analyses of missionary ideologies and the ways in which missionary identities were constructed, to the strategies employed by aboriginal Canadian and Chinese Christian converts to articulate a "Christian" identity within dominant Euro-Canadian definitions of Christian religion, to the deeply ambiguous relationship that existed between Canadian missionaries and early twentieth-century imperial powers, and to and the role of missionaries in collecting cultural artifacts from overseas societies and organizing and presenting these collections in museums to Canadian audiences. Indeed, it is the contention of the editors that "missions have had a far larger impact on Canadian identity than they did in, say, the United States" (p. 4).

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