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

by Michael Gauvreau, Ollivier Hubert

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780773581982
Publisher:	McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date:	08/07/2006
Series:	McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion , #45
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

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

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.
Ollivier Hubert is professor of history at Université de Montréal.