期刊全称 | A Cultural Sociology of Anglican Mission and the Indian Residential Schools in Canada | 期刊简称 | The Long Road to Apo | 影响因子2023 | Eric Taylor Woods | 视频video | | 学科分类 | Cultural Sociology | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | .This book focuses on the recurring struggle over the meaning of the Anglican Church’s role in the Indian residential schools--a long-running school system designed to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture, in which sexual, psychological, and physical abuse were common. From the end of the nineteenth century until the outset of twenty-first century, the meaning of the Indian residential schools underwent a protracted transformation. Once a symbol of the Church’s sacred mission to Christianize and civilize Indigenous children, they are now associated with colonialism and suffering. In bringing this transformation to light, the book addresses why the Church was so quick to become involved in the Indian residential schools and why acknowledgment of their deleterious impact was so protracted. In doing so, the book adds to our understanding of the sociological process by which perpetrators come to recognize themselves as such.. | Pindex | Book 2016 |
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