Alaskan Missionary Spirituality

Alaskan Missionary Spirituality
Title Alaskan Missionary Spirituality PDF eBook
Author Michael Oleksa
Publisher
Pages 424
Release 1987
Genre History
ISBN

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Collection of documents illustrating the spirituality of the Alaskan orthodox missionaries. Includes letters of St. Herman, writings of St. Innocent, reports from lesser known parish clergy, and diary excerpts. Introduced by an informative historical essay.

Mission from the Perspective of the Other

Mission from the Perspective of the Other
Title Mission from the Perspective of the Other PDF eBook
Author Tim Noble
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 211
Release 2018-08-30
Genre Religion
ISBN 1532650507

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Christian mission involves God, the missionary, and the other, the recipient of mission. This book argues for the centrality of this other in the practice of mission. The other as child of God is presented, not as an empty vessel waiting to be filled, but as the one who draws near to the missionary. Both are sent by God, and together they enter into the journey towards God. Drawing on Scripture, contemporary missiology, and phenomenology, the book argues for the importance of this often neglected other and demonstrates through historical case studies involving Saint Ignatius of Loyola, William Carey, and Saint Innocent of Alaska that the recognition of the gift of the other has always been present in Christian mission and can continue to inspire.

Orthodox Alaska

Orthodox Alaska
Title Orthodox Alaska PDF eBook
Author Michael Oleksa
Publisher St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Pages 260
Release 1992
Genre Religion
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The Alaska Native Reader

The Alaska Native Reader
Title The Alaska Native Reader PDF eBook
Author Maria Sháa Tláa Williams
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 420
Release 2009-09-25
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0822390833

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Alaska is home to more than two hundred federally recognized tribes. Yet the long histories and diverse cultures of Alaska’s first peoples are often ignored, while the stories of Russian fur hunters and American gold miners, of salmon canneries and oil pipelines, are praised. Filled with essays, poems, songs, stories, maps, and visual art, this volume foregrounds the perspectives of Alaska Native people, from a Tlingit photographer to Athabascan and Yup’ik linguists, and from an Alutiiq mask carver to a prominent Native politician and member of Alaska’s House of Representatives. The contributors, most of whom are Alaska Natives, include scholars, political leaders, activists, and artists. The majority of the pieces in The Alaska Native Reader were written especially for the volume, while several were translated from Native languages. The Alaska Native Reader describes indigenous worldviews, languages, arts, and other cultural traditions as well as contemporary efforts to preserve them. Several pieces examine Alaska Natives’ experiences of and resistance to Russian and American colonialism; some of these address land claims, self-determination, and sovereignty. Some essays discuss contemporary Alaska Native literature, indigenous philosophical and spiritual tenets, and the ways that Native peoples are represented in the media. Others take up such diverse topics as the use of digital technologies to document Native cultures, planning systems that have enabled indigenous communities to survive in the Arctic for thousands of years, and a project to accurately represent Dena’ina heritage in and around Anchorage. Fourteen of the volume’s many illustrations appear in color, including work by the contemporary artists Subhankar Banerjee, Perry Eaton, Erica Lord, and Larry McNeil.

Another Culture/another World

Another Culture/another World
Title Another Culture/another World PDF eBook
Author Michael Oleksa
Publisher
Pages 164
Release 2005
Genre Acculturation
ISBN

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Russians in Alaska, 1732-1867

Russians in Alaska, 1732-1867
Title Russians in Alaska, 1732-1867 PDF eBook
Author Lydia Black
Publisher University of Alaska Press
Pages 360
Release 2004
Genre History
ISBN 1889963046

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This definitive work, the crown jewel in the distinguished career of Russian America scholar Lydia T. Black, presents a comprehensive overview of the Russian presence in Alaska. Drawing on extensive archival research and employing documents only recently made available to scholars, Black shows how Russian expansion was the culmination of centuries of social and economic change. Black s work challenges the standard perspective on the Russian period in Alaska as a time of unbridled exploitation of Native inhabitants and natural resources. Without glossing over the harsher aspects of the period, Black acknowledges the complexity of relations between Russians and Native peoples. She chronicles the lives of ordinary men and women the merchants and naval officers, laborers and clergy who established Russian outposts in Alaska. These early colonists carried with them the Orthodox faith and the Russian language; their legacy endures in architecture and place names from Baranof Island to the Pribilofs. This deluxe volume features fold-out maps and color illustrations of rare paintings and sketches from Russian, American, Japanese, and European sources many have never before been published. An invaluable source for historians and anthropologists, this accessible volume brings to life a dynamic period in Russian and Alaskan history. A tribute to Black s life as a scholar and educator, "Russians in Alaska" will become a classic in the field."

Memory Eternal

Memory Eternal
Title Memory Eternal PDF eBook
Author Sergei Kan
Publisher University of Washington Press
Pages 712
Release 1999
Genre History
ISBN 9780295978062

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As a native speaker of Russian with eighteen years of fieldwork experience among the Tlingit, Kan is uniquely qualified to relate little-known material from the archives of the Russian church in Alaska to Tlingit oral history and his own observations.