The Heavens Are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity Volume 31

by Susan Neylan

Book Overview

In The Heavens Are Changing Susan Neylan offers a fresh perspective on Aboriginal encounters with Protestant missions, exploring how the Tsimshian in nineteenth-century British Columbia took an active and important role in shaping forms of Christianity and, in turn, were shaped by them. She examines the nature of Protestant missions in their first generation on the north coast of British Columbia (1857-1901), focusing on the Aboriginal roles in Christianization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773525734
• ISBN13: 9780773525733
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"