Anglicans in Canada: Controversies and Identity in Historical Perspective

Hayes, Alan L.

doi:10.2307/3512173

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“…While there are many examples documenting Christianity's role in settler colonialism (Christie and Gauvreau, 2010;Hayes, 2010;Ishiguro, 2016;Mar and Edmonds, 2010;Veracini, 2010), as well as attempts at recuperating connections between Christianity and Indigeneity in settler colonialism (Bradford and Horton, 2016;Charleston and Robinson, 2015;Smith, 2008;Treat, 1996;Vilaça and Wright, 2009), we want to contribute to the conversation about religious pluralism by not only documenting Christian perceptions of Indigenous people but also affirming Indigenous values. Affirming Indigenous religion requires including not only Indigenous religious practices within the scope of diversity but also their cultural and political conditions of intelligibility.…”

Section: Indigenous Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Mennonite case for counter-sovereignty through Indigenous assimilation: Settler colonialism, self-determination and relation to place in religious identity

Wiebe

Thackeray

2023

Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses

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This essay analyses settler colonialism’s impact on religious settler identity through one community’s perceptions and interactions with Indigenous peoples. It combines a normative commitment to Indigenous self-determination with an empirical study of Mennonite settlement narratives by drawing on Indigenous sources to interpret Mennonite descriptions of Indigenous communities between 1880 and 1939. Specifically, using two central characteristics of Indigenous religion and politics to frame the analysis – relationality and self-determination – reveals how Mennonites narrated Indigenous presence to establish their own self-determination. The study identifies the evaluative categories that Mennonites used to narrate Indigenous communities and then uses those categories with a focus on relationality and self-determination to assess North American Mennonite religious history in the same period. It demonstrates how Mennonites’ arguments for Indigenous peoples’ assimilation to settler society were motivated not just by Christian conviction but also by their desire to secure their own sovereignty. Mennonites’ interest in assimilation has at least as much to do with their relation to place as it does with their religious claims.

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Section: Indigenous Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%