A Full-Orbed Christianity
The Protestant Churches and Social Welfare in Canada, 1900-1940
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 1996
- Category
- Protestant
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773513976
- Publish Date
- Mar 1996
- List Price
- $45.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773522404
- Publish Date
- Jan 2001
- List Price
- $32.95
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Description
Christie and Gauvreau look at the ways in which reformers expanded the churches' popular base through mass revivalism, established social work and sociology in Canadian universities and church colleges, and aggressively sought to take a leadership role in social reform by incorporating independent reform organizations into the church-sponsored Social Service Council of Canada. They also explore the instrumental role of Protestant clergymen in formulating social legislation and transforming the scope and responsibilities of the modern state. The enormous influence of the Protestant churches before World War II can no longer be ignored, nor can the view that the churches were accomplices in their own secularization be justified. A Full-Orbed Christianity calls on historians to rethink the role of Protestantism in Canadian life and to see it not as the garrison of anti-modernity but as the chief harbinger of cultural change before 1940.
About the authors
Nancy Christie is professor, history, Trent University and the author of several prize-winning books, including A Full-Orbed Christianity: The Protestant Churches and Social Welfare in Canada, 1900-1940, and Engendering The State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada.
Michael Gauvreau, professor of history at McMaster University, is the author and editor of numerous works, including Mapping the Margins: Families and Social Disciplines in Canada, 1700-1970 and Cultures of Citizenship in Postwar Canada, 1940-1955.
Editorial Reviews
"A Full-Orbed Christianity offers nothing less than a fundamental reinterpretation of the relationship between religion and social reform in the first four decades of the twentieth century. Christie and Gauvreau open up a number of new and provocative issues, especially the relationship between religious reform and the development of the welfare state. Without doubt the book's impact will be enormous." William Westfall, Department of History, York University.
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