Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada

Download or read book Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada written by Michael Gauvreau and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing social and cultural strategies pursued by Protestant and Catholic religious institutions have shaped the social order in Quebec and English Canada. Through a sustained comparison of Protestantism and Catholicism, this volume explores the transition from pre-industrial to industrial society and challenges conventional chronologies of religious change.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.