{"product_id":"christian-churches-and-their-peoples-1840-1965-a-social-history-of-religion-in-canada-paperback-softback-9780802086327","title":"Christian Churches and Their Peoples, 1840-1965; A Social History of Religion in Canada (Paperback \/ softback) 9780802086327","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eChristian Churches and Their Peoples, 1840-1965\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Social History of Religion in Canada\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNancy Christie (Author), Michael Gauvreau (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780802086327\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 December 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e176 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.9 x 14.1 x 1.6 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e‘This book offers significant contribution to our understanding of the importance of religion to the social development of Canada between 1840 and 1965…Christie and Gauvearu’s analysis makes clear important distinctions between the social history of religion in Canada and that being played out in the United States.’ - Mark G. Toulouse (The Journal of Religion; vol 92:04:2012)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eReligious institutions, values, and identities are fundamental to understanding the lived experiences of Canadians in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century. \u003cem\u003eChristian Churches and Their Peoples\u003c\/em\u003e, an inter-denominational study, considers how Christian churches influenced the social and cultural development of Canadian society across regional and linguistic lines.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy shifting their focus beyond the internal dynamics of institutions, Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau address broad social issues such as the ways in which religion is linked to changing mores, the key role of laypeople in shaping churches, and the ways in which First Nations peoples both appropriated and resisted missionary teachings. With an important analysis of popular religious ideas and practices, \u003cem\u003eChristian Churches and Their Peoples\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates that the cultural authority and regulatory practices of religious institutions both affirmed and opposed the personal religious values of Canadians, ultimately facilitating their elaboration of personal, ethnic, gender, and national identities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter One: The Religious Cultures of Discipline And Dissidence in Colonial Society\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Two:  Machinery of Salvation: The Making of a Civic Christianity \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Three: 'Their Advance in Christian Civilization': Missionaries and Colonialism at Home\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Four: 'Canada is our parish': Social Christianity and its Discontents, 1910-1940 \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter Five: 'The In-Group and the Rest':The Churches and the Construction of a New Urban Lifestyle, 1940-1965\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBibliography \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52545899102488,"sku":"9780802086327","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/christian-churches-and-their-peoples-1840-1965-a-social-history-of-religion-in-canada-paperback-softback-9780802086327","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}