Bad Side to The Good Story
Between 1909 and 1913, the Inuit of the Mackenzie Delta (or Eskimos as they were then known) were all baptized and joined the Anglican Church. These conversions were both sudden and surprising given that evangelization had failed for decades. Why conversion happened and how it changed them—as percei...
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crequinoxpubl:10.1558/rsth.v26i1.77 2024-06-02T08:06:10+00:00 Bad Side to The Good Story Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Christian Conversion in the Mackenzie Delta 1906–1925 Vanast, Walter 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/rsth.v26i1.77 https://journal.equinoxpub.com/RST/article/download/1450/1478 unknown Equinox Publishing Religious Studies and Theology volume 26, issue 1, page 77-116 ISSN 1747-5414 0829-2922 journal-article 2007 crequinoxpubl https://doi.org/10.1558/rsth.v26i1.77 2024-05-07T13:51:50Z Between 1909 and 1913, the Inuit of the Mackenzie Delta (or Eskimos as they were then known) were all baptized and joined the Anglican Church. These conversions were both sudden and surprising given that evangelization had failed for decades. Why conversion happened and how it changed them—as perceived at the time by ethnologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Anglican cleric Charles E. Whittaker—is what follows here, drawn primarily from diaries, and archival resources. Article in Journal/Newspaper eskimo* inuit Mackenzie Delta Equinox Publishing Mackenzie Delta ENVELOPE(-136.672,-136.672,68.833,68.833) Stefansson ENVELOPE(-62.417,-62.417,-69.467,-69.467) Religious Studies and Theology 26 1 |
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Between 1909 and 1913, the Inuit of the Mackenzie Delta (or Eskimos as they were then known) were all baptized and joined the Anglican Church. These conversions were both sudden and surprising given that evangelization had failed for decades. Why conversion happened and how it changed them—as perceived at the time by ethnologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Anglican cleric Charles E. Whittaker—is what follows here, drawn primarily from diaries, and archival resources. |
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