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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