The churches and social order in nineteenth- and twentieth- century Canada / / edited by Michael Gauvreau and Ollivier Hubert

• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Disciplina: 277.1/08
• Soggetto topico: Christian sociology - Canada - History - 19th century; Christian sociology - Canada - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Canada Church history 19th century; Canada Church history 20th century
• Altri autori: GauvreauMichael <1956-> HubertOllivier <1968->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : beyond church history : recent developments in the history of religion in Canada / Michael Gauvreau, Ollivier Hubert -- The emergence of a statistical approach to social issues in administrative practices of the Catholic church in the province of Quebec / Christine Hudon, Ollivier Hubert -- Carnal connection and other misdemeanors : continuity and change in Presbyterian church courts, 1830-90 / Nancy Christie -- Evangelicals, church finance, and wealth-holding in mid-nineteenth-century St. Stephen, New Brunswick, and Calais, Maine / Hannah M. Lane -- Finishing badly : religion, authority, and clergy in late-Victorian London, Ontario / Kenneth L. Draper -- Developing Christians, Catholics, and citizens : Quebec churches and school religion from the turn of the twentieth century to 1960 / Brigitte Caulier -- The Saint Vincent de Paul Society and the Catholic charitable system in Quebec (1846-1921) / Jean-Marie Fecteau, Eric Vaillancourt -- Factories and foreigners : church life in working-class neighbourhoods in Hamilton and Montreal, 1890-1930 / Michael Gauvreau -- Churches and immigrant integration in Toronto, 1947-65 / Roberto Perin -- Governance of the Catholic church in Quebec : an expression of the distinct society? / Gilles Routhier.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The churches and social order in nineteenth- and twentieth- century Canada
• ISBN: 0-7735-8198-7; 1-282-86647-8; 9786612866470; 0-7735-7600-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827153903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion.