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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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The Quarterly Review
Author: That Was The Church That Was
Author: Andrew BrownPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472921658
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The unexpectedly entertaining story of how the Church of England lost its place at the centre of English public life - now updated with new material by the authors including comments on the book's controversial first publication. The Church of England still seemed an essential part of Englishness, and even of the British state, when Mrs Thatcher was elected in 1979. The decades which followed saw a seismic shift in the foundations of the C of E, leading to the loss of more than half its members and much of its influence. In England today 'religion' has become a toxic brand, and Anglicanism something done by other people. How did this happen? Is there any way back? This 'relentlessly honest' and surprisingly entertaining book tells the dramatic and contentious story of the disappearance of the Church of England from the centre of public life. The authors – religious correspondent Andrew Brown and academic Linda Woodhead – watched this closely, one from the inside and one from the outside. That Was the Church, That Was shows what happened and explains why.
Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada
Author: Michael GauvreauPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773576002
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
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.
The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher BrownePublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Pentecostal Preaching and Ministry in Multicultural and Post-Christian Canada
Author: Steven M. StudebakerPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532655657
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Over the past forty years, Canada has become an increasingly secular, multicultural, and religiously plural society. Indeed, the church in Canada, and Pentecostals in particular, face a challenging context for responding to the call to bear witness to Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. Like the disciples on the day of Pentecost, however, we need the Holy Spirit to come upon us and liberate us from our post-Christian pessimism. We need the Holy Spirit to enable us to proclaim the gospel to the nations, people that are no longer at the ends of the earth, but making their home in Canada. This book engages this new context, and considers and proposes ways that pentecostal Christians and churches can respond to the challenges of the increasingly post-Christian, multicultural, secular, and religiously plural context of Canadian society.
The Americana
Author: Frederick Converse BeachPublisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
National Identity and the Conflict at Oka
Author: Amelia KalantPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135938091
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Through readings of literature, canonical history texts, studies of museum displays and media analysis, this work explores the historical formation of myths of Canadian national identity and then how these myths were challenged (and affirmed during the 1990 standoff at Oka. It draws upon history, literary criticism, anthropology, studies in nationalism and ethnicity and post-colonial theory.
Three Civilizations, Two Cultures, One State
Author: Douglas V. VerneyPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
This volume examines 150 years of Canadian political life in light if one of the country's most intractable problems, its cultural identity. Although many thoughtful Canadians remain dubious about the existence of a truly Canadian way of life, Douglas Verney argues that in fact Canada's political traditions embody and reflect a unique culture; and that although the Canadian government has been the primary instrument for nurturing this culture, it has been at the same time the entity most guilty of obscuring and ignoring it.
The Living Church
Author: Problems of Greater Britain by the Right Hon ...
Author: Charles Wentworth DilkePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 770
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