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Apparition Fever - Observing The Virgin Mary In Belgium

by Tine Van Osselaer

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 Apparition Fever examines a series of Marian apparitions that swept over Belgium in the 1930s and â€™40s, tracing how knowledge of the apparitions was formed among bystanders, medical experts, and church authorities as they decided if the visionaries were worthy of belief.
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Tradition And Tension - The Presbyterian Church In Canada, 1945â€“1985

by Stuart Macdonald

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 Tradition and Tension is the history of a period that marked a dramatic change in the Presbyterian Churchâ€™s fortunes â€" from confident expansion in the immediate postwar period to a relatively sudden contraction in the early 1960s, followed by waning membership and influence into the 1980s.
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Contesting Zion - The Vatican, American Catholics, And The Partition Of Palestine

by Adrian Ciani

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 Consulting a range of sources, including formerly classified papers in the Vatican archive, Contesting Zion examines relationships among the Vatican, Zionism, and American Catholics from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 through the creation of Israel in 1948 and the years that followed.
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Water From Dragon'S Well - The History Of A Korean-Canadian Church Relationship

by David Kim-Cragg

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 Challenging the colonial foundations of Canadian Protestantism, the century-long Korean-Canadian church relationship continues to transform the United Church of Canadaâ€™s mission. This book traces the origins and consequences of this little-known tributary in Korean-Canadian history, giving voice to two distinct historical-cultural perspectives.
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Finding Molly Johnson - Irish Famine Orphans In Canada

by Mark G. Mcgowan

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 Ireland’s Great Famine produced Europe’s worst refugee crisis of the nineteenth century. More than 1.5 million people left Ireland, many ending up in Canada. Among the most vulnerable were nearly 1,700 orphaned children who now found themselves destitute in an unfamiliar place. The story Canada likes to tell is that these orphans were adopted by benevolent families and that they readily adapted to their new lives, but this happy ending is mostly a myth.In Finding Molly Johnson Mark McGowan traces what happened to these children. In the absence of state support, the Catholic and Protestant churches worked together to become the orphans’ principal caregivers. The children were gathered, fed, schooled, and placed in family homes in Saint John, Quebec, Montreal, Bytown, Kingston, and Toronto. Yet most were not considered members of their placement families, but rather sources of cheap labour. Many fled their placements, joining thousands of other Irish refugees on the Canadian frontier searching for work, extended family, and the opportunity to begin a new life.Finding Molly Johnson revisits an important chapter of the Irish emigrant experience, revealing that the story of Canada’s acceptance of the famine orphans is a product of national myth-making that obscures both the hardship the children endured and the agency they ultimately expressed.
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Towards A Godless Dominion - Unbelief In Interwar Canada

by Elliot Hanowski

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 In recent surveys, one in four Canadians say they have no religion. A century ago Canada was widely considered to be a Christian nation, and the vast majority of Canadians claimed they were devoutly religious. But some were determined to resist. In the 1920s and ’30s, groups of militant unbelievers formed across Canada to push back against the dominance of religion.Towards a Godless Dominion explores both anti-religious activism and the organized opposition unbelievers faced from Christian Canada during the interwar period. Despite Christianity’s prominence, anti-religious ideas were propagated by lectures in theatres, through newspapers, and out on the streets. Secularist groups in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver actively tried to win people away from religious belief. In the first two cities, they were met with stiff repression by the state, which convicted unbelievers of blasphemous libel, broke up their meetings, and banned atheistic literature from circulating. In the latter two cities unbelievers met social disapproval rather than official persecution. Looking at interwar controversies around religion, such as arguments about faith healing and fundamentalist campaigns against teaching evolution, Elliot Hanowski shows how unbelievers were able to use these conflicts to get their skeptical message across to the public.Challenging the stereotype of Canada as a tolerant, secular nation, Towards a Godless Dominion returns to a time when intolerant forms of Christianity ruled a country that was considered more religious than the United States.
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People'S Reformation - Building The English Church In The Elizabethan Parish

by Lucy Moffat Kaufman

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 The Elizabethan settlement, and the Church of England that emerged from it, made way for a theological reformation, an institutional reformation, and a high political reformation. It was a reformation that changed history, birthed an Anglican communion, and would eventually launch new wars, new language, and even a new national identity. A People’s Reformation offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the English Reformation and the roots of the Church of England. Drawing on archival material from across the United States and Britain, Lucy Kaufman examines the growing influence of state authority and the slow building of a robust state church from the bottom up in post-Reformation England. Situating the people of England at the heart of this story, the book argues that while the Reformation shaped everyday lives, it was also profoundly shaped by them in turn. England became a Protestant nation not in spite of its people but through their active social, political, and religious participation in creating a new church in England. A People’s Reformation explores this world from the pews, reimagining the lived experience and fierce negotiation of church and state in the parishes of Elizabethan England. It places ordinary people at the centre of the local, cultural, and political history of the Reformation and its remarkable, transformative effect on the world.
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Patriot And Priest - Jean-Baptiste Volfius And The Constitutional Church In The Côte-D''Or

by Annette Chapman-Adisho

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 In 1790, the French revolutionary government reformed the Catholic Church and demanded that clerics swear an oath of allegiance to the nation and its vision for French Catholicism. Although half of France's parish clergy refused to accept the state-sponsored reforms, others became embroiled in this decade-long ecclesiastical experiment. This included Jean-Baptiste Volfius, a patriot, priest, and professor who embraced the changes in France and believed in the revolution's potential to create a purer church. Patriot and Priest presents a social and intellectual history of the French constitutional church in the Cote-d'Or and the career of Volfius, who became its bishop in 1791, as he struggled to create and run the church. Annette Chapman-Adisho addresses the daily experience of the constitutional clergy over the course of ten years, exploring the interactions between priests and local and national authorities, the response of the laity to the divisions in the French Catholic Church, the evolution of these issues over time, and the eventual reconciliation of the clergy following the Napoleonic Concordat with Pope Pius VII in 1801. Using a rich collection of archival sources, this book demonstrates that although the constitutional church was ultimately a failed project, its legacy had a lasting impact on the catholic Church in France. Tracing the social, political, and theological history of this reform effort, Patriot and Priest offers new insights into the French Revolution and its impact on French Catholicism.
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Scandal In The Parish - Priests And Parishioners Behaving Badly In Eighteenth-Century France

by Karen E. Carter

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 An eye-opening examination of rural French Catholicism through stories told by priests and parishioners in church court records.
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Not Quite Us - Anti-Catholic Thought In English Canada Since 1900

by Kevin P. Anderson

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 How anti-Catholicism reflected and constructed English Canadian identity in the twentieth century and why it remains important today.
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Beyond The Noise Of Solemn Assemblies - The Protestant Ethic And The Quest For Social Justice In Canada

by Richard Allen

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 Since the 1970s Richard Allen's scholarship on the social gospel has broken new ground in the field of Canadian social and religious history by recovering key aspects of the tradition and its contribution to reform movements and politics. Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies collects and extends many of his classic works to present a comprehensive overview of a major thread in the fabric of the country. Observing the mutual foundations of political and religious traditions in myth and arguing that the sacred and the secular belong together in discussions of public affairs, Allen contests the view that religion is personal and isolated from the public square. He discusses a range of topics: the transition from providential to progressive thought in nineteenth-century Canada; the new spirituality of social solidarity articulated by Winnipeg college students in the 1890s; the role of the social gospel in pioneering urban reform; farmers and workers finding in radical Christianity legitimation for political revolt; Christian intellectuals in the 1930s framing a revolutionary prospectus for Depression-era Canada; the significance of Norman Bethune's religious upbringing for his life and work; strategically focused post-war ecumenical coalitions like Project North and the Latin American Working Group; and the prospects for democratic socialism at the end of the Cold War. Opening with a chapter relating the author's upbringing in a ministerial household dedicated to the Protestant ethic as the spirit of socialism, Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies represents a significant contribution to understanding the social Christian movement in Canada.
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Faithful Encounters - Authorities And American Missionaries In The Ottoman Empire

by Emrah Sahin

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 A riviting and timely narrative of how Muslim authorities treated Christian missionaries in the final age of the Ottoman Empire.
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Boundless Dominion - Providence, Politics, And The Early Canadian Presbyterian Worldview

by Denis Mckim

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 A study of the ideas â€" especially regarding providence, politics, nature, and history â€" that influenced the early Canadian Presbyterian worldview.
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Into Silence And Servitude - How American Girls Became Nuns, 1945-1965

by Brian Titley

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 For many American Catholics in the twentieth-century the face of the Church was a woman''s face. After the Second World War, as increasing numbers of baby boomers flooded Catholic classrooms, the Church actively recruited tens of thousands of young women as teaching sisters. In Into Silence and Servitude Brian Titley delves into the experiences of young women who entered Catholic religious sisterhoods at this time. The Church favoured nuns as teachers because their wageless labour made education more affordable in what was the world''s largest private school system. Focusing on the Church''s recruitment methods Titley examines the idea of a religious vocation, the school settings in which nuns were recruited, and the tactics of persuasion directed at both suitable girls and their parents. The author describes how young women entered religious life and how they negotiated the sequence of convent "formation stages," each with unique challenges respecting decorum, autonomy, personal relations, work, and study. Although expulsions and withdrawals punctuated each formation stage, the number of nuns nationwide continued to grow until it reached a pinnacle in 1965, the same year that Catholic schools achieved their highest enrolment. Based on extensive archival research, memoirs, oral history, and rare Church publications, Into Silence and Servitude presents a compelling narrative that opens a window on little-known aspects of America’s convent system.
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Imperial Irish - Canada’S Irish Catholics Fight The Great War, 1914-1918

by Mark G. Mcgowan

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 Between 1914 and 1918, many Irish Catholics in Canada found themselves in a vulnerable position. Not only was the Great War slaughtering millions, but tension and violence was mounting in Ireland over the question of independence from Britain and Home Rule. For Canada's Irish Catholics, thwarting Prussian militarism was a way to prove that small nations, like Ireland, could be free from larger occupying countries. Yet, even as tens of thousands of Irish Catholic men and women rallied to the call to arms and supported government efforts to win the war, many Canadians still doubted their loyalty to the Empire. Retracing the struggles of Irish Catholics as they fought Canada's enemies in Europe while defending themselves against charges of disloyalty at home, The Imperial Irish explores the development and fraying of interfaith and intercultural relationships between Irish Catholics, French Canadian Catholics, and non-Catholics throughout the course of the Great War. Mark McGowan contrasts Irish Canadian Catholics' beliefs with the neutrality of Pope Benedict XV, the supposed pro-Austrian sympathies of many immigrants from central Europe, Irish republicans inciting rebellion in Ireland, and the perceived indifference to the war by French Canadian Catholics, and argues that, for the most part, Irish Catholics in Canada demonstrated strong support for the imperial war effort by recruiting in large numbers. He further investigates their religious lives within the Canadian Expeditionary Force, the spiritual resources available to them, and church and lay leaders' negotiation of the sensitive political developments in Ireland that coincided with the war effort. Grounded in research from dozens of archives as well as census data and personnel records, The Imperial Irish explores stirring conflicts that threatened to irreparably divide Canada along religious and linguistic lines.
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Saving Germany - North American Protestants And Christian Mission To West Germany, 1945 -1974

by James Enns

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 With Nazism defeated and Communism encroaching, Christian missionaries left for Germany to fight for the soul of a nation.
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Black American Missionary In Canada - The Life And Letters Of Lewis Champion Chambers

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 Lewis Champion Chambers is one of the forgotten figures of Canadian Black history and the history of religion in Canada. Born enslaved in Maryland, Chambers purchased his freedom as a young man before moving to Canada West in 1854; there he farmed and in time served as a pastor and missionary until 1868. Between 1858 and 1867 he wrote nearly one hundred letters to the secretary of the American Missionary Association in New York, describing the progress of his work and the challenges faced by his community. Now preserved in the collections of the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, Chambers’s letters provide a rare perspective on the everyday lives of Black settlers during a formative period in Canadian history. Hilary Neary presents Chambers’s letters, weaving into a compelling narrative his vivid accounts of ministering in forest camps and small urban churches, establishing Sabbath schools and temperance societies, combating prejudice, and offering spiritual encouragement. Chambers’s life as an American in Canada intersected with significant events in nineteenth-century Black history: manumission, the Fugitive Slave Act, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. Throughout, Chambers’s fervent Christian faith highlights and reflects the pivotal role of the Black church - African Methodist Episcopal (United States) and British Methodist Episcopal (Canada) - in the lives of the once enslaved. As North Americans explore afresh their history of race and racism, A Black American Missionary in Canada elevates an important voice from the nineteenth-century Black community to deepen knowledge of Canadian history.
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Disciples Of Antigonish - Catholics In Nova Scotia, 1880-1960

by Peter Ludlow

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 By charting nearly a century of growth, struggle, and organizing, Disciples of Antigonish chronicles how a small Nova Scotian diocese came to exert tremendous influence over the development of Canadian Catholicism, and create one of the most important Catholic social movements in North America.
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Protestant Liberty - Religion And The Making Of Canadian Liberalism, 1828-1878

by James M. Forbes

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 This book offers a new interpretation of the origins and nature of 19th century liberalism by re-examining the role of religion in Canadian politics. Arguing that Canadian liberalism was rooted in the British tradition of Protestant Dissent, Forbes sheds light on the 19th century religious context that shaped the ideological foundations of Canada.
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To Make A Village Soviet - Jehovah''S Witnesses And The Transformation Of A Postwar Ukrainian Borderland

by Emily B. Baran

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 Emily Baran explores why a powerful state singled out Jehovahâ€™s Witness farmers for removal from society, arguing that what happened in Bila Tserkva demonstrates both the sheer ambition of state plans for the Sovietization of borderland communities and a minority religious communityâ€™s enduring resistance to secular, socialist ideals.
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Religion, Ethnonationalism, And Antisemitism In The Era Of The Two World Wars

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 In the wake of WWI, religious identity and practice became tools for leaders to appropriate as instruments to define national belonging, often to the detriment of those outside the faith tradition. This book places ethnonationalism â€" a particular articulation of nationalism based upon an imagined ethnic community â€" at the centre of its analysis.
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Callings And Consequences - The Making Of Catholic Vocational Culture In Early Modern France

by Christopher J. Lane

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 This book explores efforts in early modern Catholicism to encourage young men and women to discern the "state of life" to which they were called, whether clerical, religious, or lay. Lane analyzes the origins, growth, and influence of a culture of vocation that became central to the Catholic Reformation as it unfolded in seventeenth-century France.
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Communities Of The Soul - A Short History Of Religion In Puerto Rico

by Jose E. Igartua

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 Religion is fundamental to contemporary Puerto Rican society. The first synthesis of the religious history of the island, Communities of the Soul explores religion in Puerto Rico and the beliefs, practices, and religious diversity of its past and present â€" from the cosmology of the indigenous TaÃno to Afro-Caribbean and colonial influences.
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Berruyer'S Bible - Public Opinion And The Politics Of Enlightenment Catholicism In France

by Daniel J. Watkins

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 Berruyer's Bible offers a fresh perspective on the history of the Catholic Enlightenment. By exploring the rise and fall of the French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's Histoire du peuple de Dieu, Daniel Watkins reveals how Catholic attempts to assimilate Enlightenment ideas caused conflicts within the church and between the church and the French state.
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