Awaiting the millennium : the Children of Peace and the village of Hope, 1812-1889 / / Albert Schrauwers

• Autore: Schrauwers Albert
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993; ©1993
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 p.)
• Disciplina: 289.9
• Soggetto topico: Millennialism - Ontario - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: Ontario Church history 19th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Livres numeriques.; History; Church history; e-books.; Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Photographs""; ""1. The Yonge Street Settlement""; ""The Society of Friends""; ""Quakerism and the State""; ""The Yonge Street Monthly Meeting""; ""A Shared Culture?""; ""2. The Separation of the Children of Peace""; ""David Willson's Ministry""; ""David Willson's Heresy""; ""The Schism""; ""Yonge Street""; ""3. Organization""; ""Egalitarianism, Honour, and Status""; ""Crisis""; ""The Pattern of Discontent""; ""The New Discipline""; ""4. At Home and Abroad""; ""The Village of Hope"" ; ""A Village Like Any Other?""""An Itinerant Sect""; ""5. Market and Moral Economies""; ""The Annual Reproduction of the Household""; ""The Cyclical Reproduction of Households""; ""Strategizing Individuals in a Moral Economy""; ""6. Ornamenting the Christian Church""; ""Ornamenting the Church""; ""'An Irreconcilable Difference'""; ""The Basis for Consensus""; ""7. The Millennial Kingdom""; ""The Inner Light and Religious Authority""; ""Church and State""; ""The Millennial Kingdom""; ""What Makes a Millenarian Movement?""; ""8. Upper Canadian Politics and the Rebellion of 1837"" ; ""Politics and Patronage""""Evangelists or Politicians?""; ""Rebellion?""; ""9. Aftermath""; ""'Bleeding with the Wounds'""; ""Church and State""; ""A Church Like Any Other""; ""10. The Children of Peace in Theoretical and Historical Perspective""; ""Theoretical Considerations""; ""Awakenings and Conflict""; ""Rural Millenarianism""; ""Concluding Remarks""; ""Appendixes""; ""1. Active Members of the Yonge Street Monthly Meeting""; ""2. Disownments from the Yonge Street Monthly Meeting""; ""3. The 'Builders of the Temple'""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Name Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C"" ; ""D""""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Subject Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
• Sommario/riassunto: In a small town north of Toronto there stands a beautiful and unusual church, well known locally as the Sharon Temple. It is the last remaining evidence of a nineteenth-century Quaker sect, the Children of Peace, one of the few exmaples of a millennarian movement in Canada. Albert Schrauwers explores the history of this intriguing group, which rebuilt Solomon's Temple and prophesied the coming of a Jewish Messiah who would abolish British colonial rule.Schrauwers discusses the social, political, economic, and theological context in which the Children of Peace were established and, for a time, flourished. He identifies three main periods in the development of the sect: their initial break with the Quakers during the War of 1812; their reorganization following completion of the temple in 1832; and their final reorganization following the Rebellion of 1837.Using assessment rolls and a careful analysis of relations of production, he shows how material factors influences the political process by which the sect decided what was sacred and what was not. Ultimately he provides a detailed portrait of a remarkable group of people and the times in which they lived.
• Titolo autorizzato: Awaiting the millennium
• ISBN: 1-282-05641-7; 9786612056413; 1-4426-7112-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827961703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II