Earle H. Waugh is a professor of religious studies at the University of Alberta. He is the co-editor of Native Religious Traditions (WLU Press), and the author of The Munshidin of Egypt: Their World and Their Song and the Alberta Elders' Cree Dictionary).

``This biography is as respectful and sensitive to Vandersteene's religious vision as he was to that of his Cree companions.... As much a work of spirituality and theology as of history and biography, this text is highly recommended for students in religious studies, Catholicism, native and Canadian history, philosophy and cultural studies.'' -- Choice

• Dissonant Worlds: Roger Vandersteene Among the Cree by Earle H. WaughPreface and AcknowledgmentsRoger (Rogier) Vandersteene, 1918-1976MapPhotographsIntroductionOne. Flemish Matrix: Blood, Art, and PietyTwo: ""Steentje's"" Beginnings: Between Family and FlandersThree: Grouard before Vandersteene: Cree, Catholic, CanadianFour: ""My Little Sisters, My Little Brothers"": From Encounter to WasabascaFive: Intransigent Reality: Manitou's Land, Manitou's ChildrenSix: The Great Mystery: Visible and Touchable ArtSeven: Sojourn Charts: Poetry in Serenity and FluxEight: Wrestling the Spirits: Powagan, Beethoven, CancerNine: Beyond the Dissonance: Legacy of a QuestTen: Theoretical Epilogue: Vandersteene and the Understanding of ReligionAppendix 1: Chronology of Roger (Rogier) Vandersteene's LifeAppendix 2: Evaluations of Vandersteene Collected during ResearchAppendix 3: Ode to Vandersteene by Willem VermandereAppendix 4: Names of InformantsBibliographyIndex

Earle H. Waugh is a professor of religious studies at the University of Alberta. He is the co-editor of Native Religious Traditions (WLU Press), and the author of The Munshidin of Egypt: Their World and Their Song and the Alberta Elders' Cree Dictionary).

``This biography is as respectful and sensitive to Vandersteene's religious vision as he was to that of his Cree companions.... As much a work of spirituality and theology as of history and biography, this text is highly recommended for students in religious studies, Catholicism, native and Canadian history, philosophy and cultural studies.'' -- Choice

• Dissonant Worlds: Roger Vandersteene Among the Cree by Earle H. WaughPreface and AcknowledgmentsRoger (Rogier) Vandersteene, 1918-1976MapPhotographsIntroductionOne. Flemish Matrix: Blood, Art, and PietyTwo: ""Steentje's"" Beginnings: Between Family and FlandersThree: Grouard before Vandersteene: Cree, Catholic, CanadianFour: ""My Little Sisters, My Little Brothers"": From Encounter to WasabascaFive: Intransigent Reality: Manitou's Land, Manitou's ChildrenSix: The Great Mystery: Visible and Touchable ArtSeven: Sojourn Charts: Poetry in Serenity and FluxEight: Wrestling the Spirits: Powagan, Beethoven, CancerNine: Beyond the Dissonance: Legacy of a QuestTen: Theoretical Epilogue: Vandersteene and the Understanding of ReligionAppendix 1: Chronology of Roger (Rogier) Vandersteene's LifeAppendix 2: Evaluations of Vandersteene Collected during ResearchAppendix 3: Ode to Vandersteene by Willem VermandereAppendix 4: Names of InformantsBibliographyIndex

Earle H. Waugh is a professor of religious studies at the University of Alberta. He is the co-editor of Native Religious Traditions (WLU Press), and the author of The Munshidin of Egypt: Their World and Their Song and the Alberta Elders' Cree Dictionary).

``This biography is as respectful and sensitive to Vandersteene's religious vision as he was to that of his Cree companions.... As much a work of spirituality and theology as of history and biography, this text is highly recommended for students in religious studies, Catholicism, native and Canadian history, philosophy and cultural studies.'' -- Choice

• Dissonant Worlds: Roger Vandersteene Among the Cree by Earle H. WaughPreface and AcknowledgmentsRoger (Rogier) Vandersteene, 1918-1976MapPhotographsIntroductionOne. Flemish Matrix: Blood, Art, and PietyTwo: ""Steentje's"" Beginnings: Between Family and FlandersThree: Grouard before Vandersteene: Cree, Catholic, CanadianFour: ""My Little Sisters, My Little Brothers"": From Encounter to WasabascaFive: Intransigent Reality: Manitou's Land, Manitou's ChildrenSix: The Great Mystery: Visible and Touchable ArtSeven: Sojourn Charts: Poetry in Serenity and FluxEight: Wrestling the Spirits: Powagan, Beethoven, CancerNine: Beyond the Dissonance: Legacy of a QuestTen: Theoretical Epilogue: Vandersteene and the Understanding of ReligionAppendix 1: Chronology of Roger (Rogier) Vandersteene's LifeAppendix 2: Evaluations of Vandersteene Collected during ResearchAppendix 3: Ode to Vandersteene by Willem VermandereAppendix 4: Names of InformantsBibliographyIndex