Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2006
- Category
- History
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- ISBN
- 9780773581982
- Publish Date
- Aug 2006
- List Price
- $37.95
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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.
About the authors
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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Ollivier Hubert is associate professor, history, Université de Montréal, and the author of numerous works including Sur la terre comme au Ciel. La gestion des rites par l'Église catholique du Québec (fin XVIIe-mi XIXe siècle)