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Christian Churches and Their Peoples, 1840-1965

A Social History of Religion in Canada

by (author) Nancy Christie & Michael Gauvreau

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2010
Category
General, History
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802089496
    Publish Date
    Oct 2010
    List Price
    $71.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802086327
    Publish Date
    Dec 2010
    List Price
    $43.95
  • 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.

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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.

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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