Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada
- ISBN-10
- 0773581987
- ISBN-13
- 9780773581982
- Category
- Religion
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-08-07
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
- Authors
- Michael Gauvreau, Ollivier Hubert
Description
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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