"Pour l'amour de Dieu": des missionnaires coréens à la rencontre des Anicinabek
This research aims to understand how the evangelization process works in the contemporary era characterized by globalization. It takes as a case study the missionary activities of an evangelical Korean church in an Anicinabe community located in Quebec (Abitibi). The analysis of a summer mission sequence recounts the encounter between two groups representing one for the other radical otherness: non Western youth who are not career missionaries meet Indigenous children and their relatives who are more familiar with Catholicism. On the missionaries’ side, the analysis reveals motivations, objectives, strategies employed and potential impacts of that timeless experience. On the Anicinabek side, it shows the variety of responses, including reception, mainly centered on the concept of healing, and limits of the desired reciprocity.
Anicinabek Anthropology Missionaries Evangelization Christianity First Nations Koreans