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Title Canada's religions : an historical introduction / Robert Choquette.

LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 General Collection  BL2530.C2 C46 2004    AVAILABLE
Description xviii, 464 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Religions and beliefs series ; no. 12
Religions and beliefs series ; no. 12.
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages [439]-458) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Canada -- Religion.
Canada -- Church history.
Religion and sociology -- Canada.
Standard # 077663027X
0776605577 paperback

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