Church and sect in Canada / S. D. Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, S. D., author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sects--Canada.

Sects.

Canada--Church history.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (473 pages)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] : University of Toronto Press, 1948.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The need for a third printing of Church and Sect in Canada reflects the continuing interest in this pioneer study of the development of religious organization in Canadian society. It is one of three studies by Professor Clark; the other two, The Social Development of Canada and Movements of Political Protest in Canada show how the opening up of new areas of development in Canadian society led to the growth of new forms of social organization challenging the position and authority of established forms. In the field of religious organization, it was the evangelical religious sect which mounted the opposition to the established church denominations. By examining religious developments in Canada from 1760 to 1914 Professor Clark demonstrates how every move on the part of established church groups to secure, by union and other means, a greater degree of order in religious organization was accompanied by the rise of new forms of religious organization in those areas of society undergoing rapid change.In face of developments in our society today this study gains particular significance. The strong influence of the functionalist school in sociology in the United States and Canada in the 1950s and early 1960s fitted the mood of a society caught up in economic prosperity and ready to accept the comfortable assumption that the troublous upheavals in economic, political, religious, and other forms of social organization experienced in earlier decades would never recur. As a historical sociologist, Professor Clark gives emphasis to the importance of viewing developments in historical perspective. His examination of the basis of protest in religious organization in Canadian society over a period of nearly two centuries helps us understand the basis of protest, whatever form it takes, in society today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One. The Great Awakening in Nova Scotia 1760-1783

Chapter Two. The Great Revival in the Maritime Provinces 1783-1832

Chapter Three. The Great Revival in Canada 1783-1832

Chapter Four. The Break with American Sectarianism 1783-1832

Chapter Five. Conflict of Church and Sect 1832-1860

Chapter Six. New Frontiers and New Sects 1832-1860

Chapter Seven. Rise of the Territorial Church 1860-1885

Chapter Eight. The Great Revival of the City 1885-1900

Chapter Nine. Church and Sect in the Modern Community

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 10, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4426-5287-X

OCLC:

992526951