1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782630303321

Autore

Waugh Earle H. <1936->

Titolo

Dissonant worlds [[electronic resource] ] : Roger Vandersteene among the Cree / / Earle H. Waugh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1996

ISBN

1-55458-817-0

1-282-23355-6

9786613811295

0-88920-562-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 p.)

Disciplina

266.2

266.271231

Soggetti

Cree Indians - Missions - Alberta, Northern

Missionaries - Alberta, Northern

Missionaries - Belgium

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-336) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Roger (Rogier) Vandersteene, 1918-1976; Map; Photographs; Introduction; One: Flemish Matrix: Blood, Art and Piety; Two: ""Steentje's"" Beginnings: Between Family and Flanders; Three: Grouard before Vandersteene: Cree, Catholic, Canadian; Four: ""My Little Sisters, My Little Brothers'': From Encounter to Wabasca; Five: Intransigent Reality: Manitou's Land, Manitou's Children; Six: The Great Mystery: Visible and Touchable in Art; Seven: Sojourn Charts: Poetry in Serenity and Flux; Eight: Wrestling the Spirits: Powagan, Beethoven, Cancer

Nine: Beyond the Dissonance: Legacy of a QuestTen: Theoretical Epilogue: Vandersteene and the Understanding of Religion; Appendix 1 Chronology of Roger (Rogier) Vandersteene's Life; Appendix 2 Evaluations of Vandersteene Collected during Research; Appendix 3 Ode to Vandersteene; Appendix 4 Names of Informants; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

How did a Belgian Oblate missionary who came to Canada to convert the aboriginals come to be buried as a Cree chief? In Dissonant Worlds



Earle Waugh traces the remarkable career of Roger Vandersteene: his life as an Oblate missionary among the Cree, his intensive study of the Cree language and folkways, his status as a Cree medicine man, and the evolution of his views on the relationship between aboriginal traditions and the Roman Catholicism of the missionaries who worked among them. Above all, Dissonant Worlds traces Vandersteene's quest to build a new religious reality: a

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910153216803321

Autore

Hansen Henrik Lindberg

Titolo

Christian-Muslim relations in Egypt : politics, society and interfaith encounters / / Henrik Lindberg Hansen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., , 2015

©2015

ISBN

9780755624416

0755624416

9780857738400

0857738402

9780857726780

0857726781

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Library of modern religion ; ; volume 43

Disciplina

261.2/70962

Soggetti

Christianity and other religions - Africa - Islam

Christianity - Egypt

Islam - Relations - Christianity

Islam - Egypt

Social conflict - Egypt - Religious aspects - Christianity

Christianity

Egypt Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"LMR 43"--Spine.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-280) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dialogue as the negotiation or navigation of intergroup relations --



Politics, religion, and society in Mubarak's Egypt -- The interpretation of Muslim-Christian incidents -- The dialogical navigation and negotiation of Egyptian society -- Egypt and dialogue in a time of revolution.

Sommario/riassunto

The subject of Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East and indeed in the West attracts much academic and media attention. Nowhere is this more the case than in Egypt, which has the largest Christian community in the Middle East, estimated at 6-10 per cent of the national population. Henrik Lindberg Hansen analyzes this relationship, offering an examination of the nature and role of religious dialogue in Egyptian society and politics. Analysing the three main religious organizations and institutions in Egypt (namely the Azhar University, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Coptic Orthodox Church) as well as a range of smaller dialogue initiatives (such as those of CEOSS, the Anglican and Catholic Churches and youth organisations), Hansen argues that religious dialogue involves a close examination of societal relations, and how these are understood and approached. The books includes analysis of the occasions of violence against and dialogue initiatives involving Christian communities in 2011 and the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood from power in 2013, and thus provides a wide-ranging exploration of the importance of religion in Egyptian society and everyday encounters with a religious other. The book is consequently vital for practitioners as well as researchers dealing with religious minorities in the Middle East and interfaith dialogue in a wider context.