Christian Churches and Their Peoples, 1840-1965
A Social History of Religion in Canada
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2010
- Category
- General, History
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780802089496
- Publish Date
- Oct 2010
- List Price
- $71.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780802086327
- Publish Date
- Dec 2010
- List Price
- $43.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442660014
- Publish Date
- Dec 2010
- List Price
- $32.95
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Description
Religious institutions, values, and identities are fundamental to understanding the lived experiences of Canadians in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century. Christian Churches and Their Peoples, an inter-denominational study, considers how Christian churches influenced the social and cultural development of Canadian society across regional and linguistic lines.
By shifting their focus beyond the internal dynamics of institutions, Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau address broad social issues such as the ways in which religion is linked to changing mores, the key role of laypeople in shaping churches, and the ways in which First Nations peoples both appropriated and resisted missionary teachings. With an important analysis of popular religious ideas and practices, Christian Churches and Their Peoples demonstrates that the cultural authority and regulatory practices of religious institutions both affirmed and opposed the personal religious values of Canadians, ultimately facilitating their elaboration of personal, ethnic, gender, and national identities.
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
‘This book offers significant contribution to our understanding of the importance of religion to the social development of Canada between 1840 and 1965…Christie and Gauvearu’s analysis makes clear important distinctions between the social history of religion in Canada and that being played out in the United States.’
The Journal of Religion; vol 92:04:2012
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