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Languages : en
Pages : 250
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The Dissenting Church of Christ at St. John's, 1775-1975
Author: Beating against the Wind
Author: Calvin HollettPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773599010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
There are many analyses of Tractarianism – a nineteenth-century form of Anglicanism that emphasized its Catholic origins – but how did people in the colonies react to the High Church movement? Beating against the Wind, a study in nineteenth-century vernacular spirituality, emphasizes the power of faith on a shifting frontier in a transatlantic world. Focusing on people living along the Newfoundland and Labrador coast, Calvin Hollett presents a nuanced perspective on popular resistance to the colonial emissary Bishop Edward Feild and his spiritual regimen of order, silence, and solemnity. Whether by outright opposing Bishop Feild, or by simply ignoring his wishes and views, or by brokering a hybrid style of Gothic architecture, the people of Newfoundland and Labrador demonstrated their independence in the face of an attempt at hierarchical ascendency upon the arrival of Tractarianism in British North America. Instead, they continued to practise evangelical Anglicanism and participate in Methodist revivals, and thereby negotiated a popular Protestantism, one often infused with the spirituality of other seafarers from Nova Scotia and New England. Exploring the interaction between popular spirituality and religious authority, Beating against the Wind challenges the traditional claim of Feild’s success in bringing Tractarianism to the colony while exploring the resistance to Feild’s initiatives and the reasons for his disappointments.
Lieutenant Owen William Steele of the Newfoundland Regiment
Author: David R. Facey-CrowtherPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773570527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Steele and his comrades expected war to be a glorious adventure, their personal intersection with events of historic importance. His diary entries convey the excitement that accompanied the passage of the "First 500" recruits across the Atlantic to England and the boredom that followed as the regiment moved from training camps to garrison towns during the first year of the war. Steele's account of the regiment's role in the ill-fated Gallipoli expedition shows how the reality of war transforms individuals, shattering illusions about glory and heroic effort and replacing them with fears of death and wounding far from home. Steele's record of the shift to the western front and the events that led up to the virtual annihilation of his regiment on the fields of Beaumont Hamel on 1 July 1916 is filled with the pathos and irony of war. His diary captures the essence of how the individual deals with war's uncertainties, the terrible possibilities of self destruction on the battle-ground, and the need to control and overcome those fears. The Great War is of special interest to Newfoundland as it was the last significant effort by what was then a small Dominion to assert its place within the larger British Empire. Newfoundland's participation in the war resulted not only in the loss of lives and limbs but to the strains and tensions that led to its demise as an independent country.
Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing
Author: Calvin HollettPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773582525
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Contesting previous historical scholarship, Calvin Hollett argues that the growth in Methodism was not the result of clergy-dominated missionary work intended to rescue a degenerated populace. Instead, the author shows how Methodism flourished as a people's movement in which believers in coastal locations were free to experience individual and communal rapture and welcomed at lay revivals in more populous areas. An insightful look at the growth of a religion, Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing with Ecstasy reasserts the importance of laypeople in religious matters, while detailing successful ways to bring the religious experience into daily life.
Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions
Author: Gerald H. AndersonPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802846808
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
"The book also features cross-references throughout, a bibliography accompanying each entry, an elaborate appendix listing biographies according to particular categories of interest, and a comprehensive index."--BOOK JACKET.
Newfoundland Quarterly
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Category : Newfoundland and Labrador
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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National Union Catalog
Author: Sessions D'étude
Author: Canadian Catholic Historical AssociationPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Religion and Identity
Author: Terrence MurphyPublisher: St. John's, Nfld. : Jesperson Press
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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The Rock Observed
Author: Patrick O'FlahertyPublisher:
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Category : Authors, Canadian
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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