Canada's religions : an historical introduction /
With nine out of ten Canadians claiming a religious affiliation of some kind - Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Aboriginal, or one of dozens of other religions - faith has huge impact on our personal and social lives. In this book, Robert Choquette offers a comprehensive histo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ottawa :
University of Ottawa Press,
©2004.
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Colección: | Religions and beliefs series ;
no. 12. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The religious world of Canada's Amerindians
- European religions on the eve of encounter
- The encounter between Amerindians and Europeans
- Missions of many kinds
- The development of the Catholic church
- Theology, beliefs, customs, and piety
- The church, the British conquest, and the Québec act
- Revivals in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
- Missionary agencies
- The churches and the state
- The evangelical crusade
- Alternatives to the evangelical crusade
- Confessional education
- Modernity versus conservatism
- Social Christianity
- Secularization and church reform
- Immigration and religions
- Alternative religions
- The future of religions in Canada.