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

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Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada is written by Michael Gauvreau and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0773530576 (ISBN 10) and 9780773530577 (ISBN 13).

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.