The 2018 Historical Papers of the Canadian Society of Church History

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Identity Negotiating in Cultural Accommodation and Spiritual Practice: A Case Study of the Chinese Diasporic and Sinophone Christians in Four Toronto-based Ling Liang (Bread of Life) Churches
SHENG-PING GUO 5

Christianization: Women’s Immolation in Europe, India, and Japan
CHE-WEN CINDY LIN 29

Seeking Mutual Respect: Rhetoric versus Reality in the Missiology of the United Church Canada Korea Mission, 1960s
DAVID KIM-CRAGG 55

Navigating Tradition: The Life and Leadership of Ältester Herman D.W. Friesen, 1908-1969
BRUCE L. GUENTHER 75

“Getting their Story into the South”: Project North and the United Church of Canada, 1975-1987
SANDRA BEARDSALL 89

Mabel Loomis Todd and the Will of God: Three Crises of Faith in Late Nineteenth-Century America
TODD WEBB 99

CSCH President’s Address
For Whom the Bard Tells: The Role of the Canadian Society of Church History in Shaping Religious Historiography
JAMES TYLER ROBERTSON 115