Dissonant worlds : Roger Vandersteene among the Cree

Dissonant worlds : Roger Vandersteene among the Cree / Earle H. Waugh.

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 folkw...

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Main Author: Waugh, Earle H., 1936-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©1996.
Series:CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
Subjects:
Vandersteene, Roger, > 1918-
Oblates of Mary Immaculate > Missions > Alberta, Northern.
Oblates of Mary Immaculate > Biography.
Oblates of Mary Immaculate
Cree Indians > Missions > Alberta, Northern.
Missionaries > Alberta, Northern > Biography.
Missionaries > Belgium > Biography.
Cree Indians > Missions
Missionaries
Missions
Northern Alberta
Belgium
Biographies
Biographies.
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Table of 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.

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