Religion and public life in Canada : historical and comparative perspectives / / edited by Marguerite Van Die

• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001; ©2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (402 p.)
• Disciplina: 200/.971
• Soggetto topico: Christianity and politics - Canada; Religion and politics - Canada
• Soggetto geografico: Kanada; Canada
• Soggetto genere / forma: Livres numeriques.; e-books.; Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): Van DieMarguerite
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Constructing public religions at private sites: the Anglican Church in the shadow of disestablishment / William Westfall -- Evangelical and public life in Southern New Brunswick, 1830-1880 / T.W. Acheson -- Religion and public space in Protestant Toronto, 1880-1900 / Brian Clarek -- Elaborating a public culture: the Catholic Church in nineteenth century Quebec / Roberto Perin -- The state, the church and Indian residential schools in Canada / J.R. Miller -- Missionaries, scholars and diplomats: China missions nd Canadian public life / Alvyn Austin -- Continental divides: North American civil war and religion as at least three stories / Mark Noll -- Evangelical moral reform: women and the war against tobacco, 1874-1900 / Sharon Anne Cook -- Religion and the shaping of 'public woman': a post-suffrage casse study / Mary Kinnear -- Young man Knowles: Christianity, politics adn the 'making of a better world' / Eleanor J. Stebner. ; Premier E.C. Manning, Back to the Bible Hour, and fundamentalism in Canada / David Marshall -- Catholicism's 'Quiet Revolution': maintenant and the new public Catholicism in Quebec after 1960 / David Seljak -- The Christian recessional in Ontario's public schools / R.D. Gidney and W.P.J. Millar -- From a private to a public religion: the history of the public service Christian Fellowship / Don Page -- 'Justice and only justice thou shalt pursue': considerations on the social voice of Canada's Reform Rabbis / Gerald Tulchinsky -- Canadian Mennonites and a widening world / Harold Jantz -- Sikhism and secular authority / Hugh Johnston.
• Sommario/riassunto: As this collection of scholarly case studies reveals, religion once played a major public role in all aspects of Canadian society, including politics, education, and culture.
• Titolo autorizzato: Religion and public life in Canada
• ISBN: 1-282-03718-8; 9786612037184; 1-4426-7919-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819378703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II