The Impact of Christian Missions on Indigenous Cultures: The "Real People" and the Unreal Gospel

by James L. Cox

This study provides a theological, historical, and methodological analysis of the impact of Christian missions on indigenous cultures by examining Alaska as a case study. It seeks to demonstrate that Protestant missionaries carried a gospel of Western civilization intended to Americanize the native peoples of Alaska. The approaches taken among the Inupiat and Yuit peoples (translated: the real people) are also described.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889460728
• ISBN13: 9780889460720
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Length: 261 Pages