| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), map, portrait |
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CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection
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| Contents |
Roger (Rogier) Vandersteene, 1918-1976 -- 1. Flemish Matrix: Blood, Art and Piety -- 2. "Steentje's" Beginnings: Between Family and Flanders -- 3. Grouard before Vandersteene: Cree, Catholic, Canadian -- 4. "My Little Sisters, My Little Brothers": From Encounter to Wabasca -- 5. Intransigent Reality: Manitou's Land, Manitou's Children -- 6. The Great Mystery: Visible and Touchable in Art -- 7. Sojourn Charts: Poetry in Serenity and Flux -- 8. Wrestling the Spirits: Powagan, Beethoven, Cancer -- 9. Beyond the Dissonance: Legacy of a Quest -- 10. 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 / Willem Vermandere -- Appendix 4. Names of Informants |
| Summary |
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 strong, spiritual |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-336) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Vandersteene, Roger, 1918-
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Vandersteene, Roger, 1918- fast |
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Oblates of Mary Immaculate -- Missions -- Alberta, Northern
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Oblates of Mary Immaculate -- Biography
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Oblates of Mary Immaculate fast |
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Cree Indians -- Missions -- Alberta, Northern
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Missionaries -- Alberta, Northern -- Biography
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Missionaries -- Belgium -- Biography
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Cree Indians -- Missions
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Missionaries
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Missions
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Northern Alberta
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Belgium
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780889202597 |
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0889202591 |
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0889205620 |
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9780889205628 |
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9781554588176 |
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1554588170 |
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