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Households of faith : family, gender, and community in Canada, 1760-1969 / edited by Nancy Christie.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two.
- McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Canada--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Families.
- Sex role--Canada--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Sex role.
- Gender identity--Canada.
- Gender identity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (398 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Households of Faith has a broad scope, extending from a consideration of church ritual in New France, to demographic analyses of New Brunswick and the Eastern Townships of Quebec, to the intersection of gender and ethnicity, the construction of family in Aboriginal communities, and the changing definitions of sex roles and the family itself among both clergy and laypeople. Contributors include Nancy Christie, Enrico Cumbo (CBC), Patricia Dirks (Brock University), Ken Draper (Canadian Bible College), Michael Gauvreau (McMaster University), Ollivier Hubert (Université de Montréal), Christine Hudon (Université de Sherbrooke), Hannah Lane (University of New Brunswick), J.I. Little (Simon Fraser University),Susan Neylan (Wilfrid Laurier University), and Marguerite Van Die (Queen's University).
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: THE AGE OP PATRIARCHY
- Ritual Performance and Parish Sociability: French-Canadian Catholic Families at Mass from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century 37
- OLLIVIER HUBERT
- The Fireside Kingdom: A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Anglican Perspective on Marriage and Parenthood 77
- J.I. LITTLE
- POPULAR RELIGION AND FAMILY STRATEGIES
- Tribalism, Proselytism, and Pluralism: Protestants, Family, and Denominational Identity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century
- St Stephen, New Brunswick 103
- HANNAH M. LANE
- Family Fortunes and Religious Identity: The French-Canadian Protestants of South Ely, Quebec, 185o-190o 138
- CHRISTINE HUDON
- Contested Family: Navigating Kin and Culture in Protestant Missions to the Tsimshian, 1857-1896 167
- SUSAN NEYLAN
- CENDER, SOCIAL CHANCE, AND THE LANGUAGE OF DOMESTICITY
- Salvation in Indifference: Gendered Expressions of Italian-Canadian Immigrant Catholicity, 1900-1940 2o5
- ENRICO CARLSON CUMBO
- Revisiting "Separate Spheres": Women, Religion, and the Family in Mid-Victorian Brantford, Ontario 234
- MARGUERITE VAN DIE
- Redemptive Homes - Redeeming Choices: Saving the Social in Late-Victorian London, Ontario 264
- KENNETH L. DRAPER
- Reinventing Christian Masculinity and Fatherhood: The Canadian Protestant Experience, 1900-1920 290
- PATRICIA DIRKS
- MODERNITY, SEXUALITY, AND THE INDIVIDUALIST TEMPER
- The Emergence of Personalist Feminism: Catholicism and the Marriage-Preparation Movement in Quebec,
- 1940-1966 319
- MICHAEL GAUVREAU
- Sacred Sex: The United Church and the Privatization of the Family in Post-War Canada 348
- NANCY CHRISTIE
- Conclusion: "Patriarchal Piety" and Canada's Liberal Tradition 377.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-85968-4
- 9786612859687
- 0-7735-6968-5
- OCLC:
- 929120659
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