"Inoculated with the Ways of Anglicans": Representing Indigenous Participation in Canadian Synodality, 1866
The unprecedented participation by two Ojibwe-speaking Anishinabek lay delegates in the 1866 meeting of the Electoral Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto garnered a brief flurry of contemporary journalistic coverage across a networked imperial and colonial press. In the most vivid reportage, th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2024
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Journal of Anglican studies
Year: 2024, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 52-66 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBQ North America KCC Councils KDE Anglican Church RB Church office; congregation ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
Anishinaabe
B T. C. Patteson B episcopal election B Anglican Diocese of Toronto B Satire B Buhkwujjenene B Indigenous Anglicanism B print journalism B Synodality |
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| Summary: | The unprecedented participation by two Ojibwe-speaking Anishinabek lay delegates in the 1866 meeting of the Electoral Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto garnered a brief flurry of contemporary journalistic coverage across a networked imperial and colonial press. In the most vivid reportage, the two delegates were dehumanized, reduced to the status of "Indian nags … becoming inoculated with the ways of Anglicans". In another more distantly circulated representation, an Indigenous presence at the incipience of Canadian synodality was invested with different rhetorical significance, the unsettling scandal of their voting membership justifying the struggle for self-government in the nascent Anglican Churches of other colonies, thus laying bare anxieties about the precarious situation of colonial Anglicanism. Rather than presuming to interpret the experience and discourse of Indigenous Anglicans, nor simply documenting the first local episode of formal Indigenous involvement in the counsels of Anglicans in Canada, this paper introduces the Electoral Synod, the neglected texts that covered the event, along with the lives of the exoticized churchmen featured in their coverage. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5278 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Anglican studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S1740355322000407 |