Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada

Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada
ISBN-10
0773530576
ISBN-13
9780773530577
Category
Religion
Pages
330
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Authors
Michael Gauvreau, Ollivier Hubert

Description

Changing social and cultural strategies pursued by Protestant and Catholic religious institutions have shaped the social order in Quebec and English Canada. Through a sustained comparison of Protestantism and Catholicism, this volume explores the transition from pre-industrial to industrial society and challenges conventional chronologies of religious change.By examinng education, charity, community discipline, the relationship between clergy and congregations, and working-class religion, the contributors shift the field of religious history into the realm of the socio-cultural. This novel perspective reveals that the Christian churches remained dynamic and popular in English and French Canada, as well as among immigrants, well into the twentieth century.

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