Full-Orbed Christianity

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Author: Nancy Christie

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1996-03-25

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 0773565949

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Christie and Gauvreau look at the ways in which reformers expanded the churches' popular base through mass revivalism, established social work and sociology in Canadian universities and church colleges, and aggressively sought to take a leadership role in social reform by incorporating independent reform organizations into the church-sponsored Social Service Council of Canada. They also explore the instrumental role of Protestant clergymen in formulating social legislation and transforming the scope and responsibilities of the modern state. The enormous influence of the Protestant churches before World War II can no longer be ignored, nor can the view that the churches were accomplices in their own secularization be justified. A Full-Orbed Christianity calls on historians to rethink the role of Protestantism in Canadian life and to see it not as the garrison of anti-modernity but as the chief harbinger of cultural change before 1940.

A Full-Orbed Christianity

A Full-Orbed Christianity PDF

Author: Nancy Christie

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9780773522404

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Looks at the ways in which reformers expanded the popular base of Protestant churches through mass revivalism, social work and sociology in Canadian universities and church colleges, and incorporation of independent reform organizations into the church-sponsored Social Service Council of Canada. Discusses the role of Protestant clergymen in formulating social legislation, demonstrating the Protestantism was the chief harbinger of cultural change before 1940. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Secularisation in the Christian World

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Author: Michael Snape

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1317058291

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The power of modernity to secularise has been a foundational idea of the western world. Both social science and church history understood that the Christian religion from 1750 was deeply vulnerable to industrial urbanisation and the Enlightenment. But as evidence mounts that countries of the European world experienced secularising forces in different ways at different periods, the timing and causes of de-Christianisation are now widely seen as far from straightforward. Secularisation in the Christian World brings together leading scholars in the social history of religion and the sociology of religion to explore what we know about the decline of organised Christianity in Britain, Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. The chapters tackle different strands, themes, comparisons and territories to demonstrate the diversity of approach, thinking and evidence that has emerged in the last 30 years of scholarship into the religious past and present. The volume includes both new research and essays of theoretical reflection by the most eminent academics. It highlights historians and sociologists in both agreement and dispute. With contributors from eight countries, the volume also brings together many nations for the first consolidated international consideration of recent themes in de-Christianisation. With church historians and cultural historians, and religious sociologists and sociologists of the godless society, this book provides a state-of-the-art guide to secularisation studies.

Spirits of Protestantism

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Author: Pamela E. Klassen

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-07-14

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0520270991

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“Klassen’s book is much more than a first-rate study of how two churches in Canada positioned themselves within the ostensibly parallel worlds of biomedicine and spiritual healing. It is, at its core, an insightful meditation on the relationship between liberal Protestantism and the project of modernity. A must read not only for students of Christianity, but all those interested in the legacies of secularism and enchantment." —Matthew Engelke, London School of Economics

Christian Churches and Their Peoples, 1840-1965

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Author: Nancy Christie

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2010-12-15

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1442660015

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Religious institutions, values, and identities are fundamental to understanding the lived experiences of Canadians in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century. Christian Churches and Their Peoples, an inter-denominational study, considers how Christian churches influenced the social and cultural development of Canadian society across regional and linguistic lines. By 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, Christian Churches and Their Peoples 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.

The Labour Church

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Author: Neil Johnson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-22

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1315304570

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This book aims to unpack the core message of the Labour Church and question the accepted views of the movement by pursuing an alternative way of analysing its history, significance and meaning. The religious influences on late-nineteenth/early-twentieth-century British Socialism are examined and placed within a wider context, highlighting a continuing theological imperative for the British Labour movement. The book argues that the most distinctive feature of the Labour Church was Theological Socialism. For its founder, John Trevor, Theological Socialism was the literal Religion of Socialism, a post-Christian prophecy announcing the dawn of a new utopian era explained in terms of the Kingdom of God on earth; for members of the Labour Church, who are referred to as Theological Socialists, Theological Socialism was an inclusive message about God working through the Labour movement. Challenging the historiography and reappraising the political significance of the Labour Church, this book will be of interest to students and scholars researching the intersection between religion and politics, as well as radical left history and politics more generally.

Methodist Church on the Prairies, 1896-1914

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Author: George Emery

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2001-05-03

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0773569219

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The Methodist Church met the challenge with a centralized polity and a cross-class, gender-variegated, evolving religious culture. It relied on wealthy laymen to raise special funds, while small gifts fed its regular funds. Young bachelors from Ontario and Britain filled the pastorate, although low pay, inexperience, and poor supervision caused many to quit. Membership growth was slow due to low population density and church-resistant elements in the Methodist population (bachelors, immigrant co-religionists, and transients), and missions to non-Anglo-Saxon immigrants in Winnipeg, Edmonton, and rural Alberta spread Methodist values but gained few members. In The Methodist Church on the Prairies, 1896-1914, the first scholarly study of church history in the prairie region, George Emery uses quantitative methods and social interpretation to show that the Methodist Church was a cross-class institution with a dynamic evangelical culture, not a middle-class institution whose culture was undergoing secularization. He demonstrates that the Methodist's achievement on the prairies was impressive and compared favourably with what Presbyterians and Anglicans achieved.

For Canada's Sake

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Author: Gary Richard Miedema

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780773528772

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This study uses the Centennial Celebrations of 1967 and Expo 67 to explore how religion informed Canadian nation-building and national identities in the 1960s.

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