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

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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...
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  • August 1, 2010
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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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Price: $37.95
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
Publication Date: August 1, 2010
ISBN: 9780773576001
Format: eBook
BISACs: RELIGION / Christian Theology / History
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Michael Gauvreau is professor of history, McMaster University, and the author and editor of numerous works, including Mapping the Margins: The Family and Social Discipline in Canada and The Catholic Origins of the Quiet Revolution.
Ollivier Hubert is a