The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary's Journey on Indigenous Land (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)
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The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary's Journey on Indigenous Land (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)
The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary's Journey on Indigenous Land (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)

The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary's Journey on Indigenous Land (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)

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Pamela E. Klassen (Author)  

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At the dawn of the radio age in the 1920s, a settler-mystic living on northwest coast of British Columbia invented radio mind: Frederick Du Vernet-Anglican archbishop and self-declared scientist-announced a psychic channel by which minds could telepathically communicate across distance. Retelling Du Vernet's imaginative experiment, Pamela Klassen shows us how agents of colonialism built metaphysical traditions on land they claimed to have conquered. Following Du Vernet's journey westward from Toronto to Ojibwe territory and across the young nation of Canada, Pamela Klassen examines how contests over the mediation of stories-via photography, maps, printing presses, and radio-lucidly reveal the spiritual work of colonial settlement. A city builder who bargained away Indigenous land to make way for the railroad, Du Vernet knew that he lived on the territory of Ts'msyen, Nisga'a, and Haida nations who had never ceded their land to the onrush of Canadian settlers. He condemned the devastating effects on Indigenous families of the residential schools run by his church while still serving that church. Testifying to the power of radio mind with evidence from the apostle Paul and the philosopher Henri Bergson, Du Vernet found a way to explain the world that he, his church and his country made. Expanding approaches to religion and media studies to ask how sovereignty is made through stories, Klassen shows how the spiritual invention of colonial nations takes place at the same time that Indigenous peoples-including Indigenous Christians-resist colonial dispossession through stories and spirits of their own.
Pamela E. Klassen is professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed to anthropology. She is the author of several books, including Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity, and Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State, with coauthors Paul Christopher Johnson and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
  • Contributor: Pamela E. Klassen
  • Imprint: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN13: 9780226552569
  • Number of Pages: 336
  • Packaged Dimensions: 17x24x3mm
  • Packaged Weight: 595
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Release Date: 2018-06-12
  • Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Pamela E. Klassen is professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed to anthropology. She is the author of several books, including Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity, and Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State, with coauthors Paul Christopher Johnson and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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