{"product_id":"mixed-blessings-3","title":"Mixed Blessings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMixed Blessings\u003c\/em\u003e transforms our understanding of the relationship between Indigenous people and Christianity in what is now Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile acknowledging the harm of colonialism, including the trauma inflicted by church-run residential schools, this book challenges the portrayal of Indigenous people as passive victims of malevolent missionaries who experienced a uniformly dark history. Instead, it illuminates the diverse and multifaceted ways that Indigenous communities and individuals across Canada have interacted, and continue to interact, meaningfully with Christianity from the early 1600s to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRanging widely across time and place, these insightful case studies explore how and why some Indigenous people – including Louis Riel and Edward Ahenakew – historically aligned themselves with Christianity while others did not. It also plumbs the processes and politics involved in combining spiritual traditions and reflects on the role of Christianity in Indigenous communities today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tolly Bradford and Chelsea Horton, eds.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573485633718,"sku":"9780774829410","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780774829410_c63dee3e-3927-471d-aab0-f927b83a15d9.jpg?v=1727877208","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/mixed-blessings-3","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}