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Book review: Prophetic Identities: Indigenous Missionaries on British Colonial Frontiers, 1850–75 , written by Tolly Bradford

Book review: Prophetic Identities: Indigenous Missionaries on British Colonial Frontiers, 1850–75... Prophetic Identities: Indigenous Missionaries on British Colonial Frontiers, 1850–75 . Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, ubc Press 2012. Pp. ix + 217. $35.95. Nineteenth-century evangelical missionaries traveled around the world, determined to bring the Gospel and civilization to all. While their advance sometimes coincided and cooperated with – and sometimes contested – colonialism, they also empowered those they evangelized by training local church leaders. In Prophetic Identities , historian Tolly Bradford explores the lives of two such missionaries: Henry Budd (c. 1812–1875), a Cree man employed by the Anglican Church Missionary Society in British North-West America, and Tiyo Soga (1829–1871), a Xhosa man affiliated with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in the frontier zone of South Africa’s Cape Colony. The book highlights how their position as Cree and Xhosa Christian missionaries on the edge of the British Empire pushed them to rethink their Cree and Xhosa identities. Drawing on their letters, journals, and essays, Bradford argues that each man “combined his Christian training with his ties to indigenous communities to remake indigeneity into an identity that was explicitly modern and Christian” (2). Bradford devotes two chapters to Budd’s and Soga’s paths to Christian faith and eventual ordination as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mission Studies Brill

Book review: Prophetic Identities: Indigenous Missionaries on British Colonial Frontiers, 1850–75 , written by Tolly Bradford

Mission Studies , Volume 31 (1): 117 – Feb 26, 2014

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0168-9789
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1573-3831
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Prophetic Identities: Indigenous Missionaries on British Colonial Frontiers, 1850–75 . Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, ubc Press 2012. Pp. ix + 217. $35.95. Nineteenth-century evangelical missionaries traveled around the world, determined to bring the Gospel and civilization to all. While their advance sometimes coincided and cooperated with – and sometimes contested – colonialism, they also empowered those they evangelized by training local church leaders. In Prophetic Identities , historian Tolly Bradford explores the lives of two such missionaries: Henry Budd (c. 1812–1875), a Cree man employed by the Anglican Church Missionary Society in British North-West America, and Tiyo Soga (1829–1871), a Xhosa man affiliated with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in the frontier zone of South Africa’s Cape Colony. The book highlights how their position as Cree and Xhosa Christian missionaries on the edge of the British Empire pushed them to rethink their Cree and Xhosa identities. Drawing on their letters, journals, and essays, Bradford argues that each man “combined his Christian training with his ties to indigenous communities to remake indigeneity into an identity that was explicitly modern and Christian” (2). Bradford devotes two chapters to Budd’s and Soga’s paths to Christian faith and eventual ordination as

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Published: Feb 26, 2014

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