Canada's Religions: An Historical Introduction Book

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Title:    Canada's Religions: An Historical Introduction

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	List of Illustrations	xvii
Chapter 1	Introduction	1
	Suggested Readings	4
Chapter 2	The Religious World of Canada's Amerindians
	The origins of Canada's Amerindian people	7
	Amerindian realignments during the seventeenth century	10
	The religions of Canada's Amerindians	11
	Some basic themes in Canadian Amerindian religions	13
	Illness and healing	22
	Conclusion	25
	Suggested readings	25
Chapter 3	European Religions on the Eve of Encounter
	The religions of Europe before the seventeenth century	27
	The early Christian heritage	27
	Medieval Christendom	29
	The varieties of religions of Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries	32
	Islam in Europe	32
	Judaism in Europe	33
	The Protestant Reformation	35
	The Catholic Reformation	37
	A Eurocentric world view	41
	A stronger or a weaker Christianity?	45
	A divided Christian church	45
	A united Christian church	46
	Did diversity strengthen or weaken Christianity?	48
	Suggested readings	50
Chapter 4	The Encounter between Amerindians and Europeans
	Europeans discover the Americas	51
	The diverging agendas of Europeans and Amerindians	54
	The agenda of the Franco-Europeans	54
	The agenda of the Amerindians	58
	The missionaries encounter the Amerindians	60
	Suggested readings	64
Chapter 5	Missions of Many Kinds
	What is Christian mission?	67
	Evangelization in early and medieval Christianity	67
	Evangelizing the New World	68
	Evangelizing Canada	69
	The missionary personnel: the men	70
	The Recollet Friars	70
	The Society of Jesus	74
	The Gentlemen of Saint-Sulpice	79
	The missionary personnel: the women	81
	The Ursulines	81
	The Hospital Sisters of Quebec	82
	The Hospitalers of Montreal	83
	The Notre-Dame Sisters	84
	The Sisters of Charity of Montreal	85
	The evangelization of Canada's Amerindians	86
	The point of view of the clergy	86
	The point of view of the Amerindians	89
	The legacy of Christian missions	92
	Suggested readings	93
Chapter 6	The Development of the Catholic Church
	The organization of the Catholic Church	95
	The territorial organization of established churches	96
	The territorial organization of mission churches	96
	The management of the Catholic Church	97
	Religious orders in the church	97
	Power shifts in the management of the church	100
	Gallicanism	102
	Early Canadian church institutions	105
	The diocese of Quebec	105
	Financing the church	110
	The Seminary of Quebec	111
	Other educational institutions	112
	Health care and social work	112
	Church developments in the eighteenth century	114
	Suggested readings	115
Chapter 7	Theology, Beliefs, Customs, and Piety
	Doctrine and theology	117
	Crosscurrents in French theology	117
	The teaching of Bishop Saint-Vallier	120
	Beliefs and religious customs of Early Canadians	121
	The Canadian context	121
	Popular attitudes to morality and religion	124
	Confraternities	125
	Holy places and pilgrimages	126
	Amerindian Christian villages	129
	Concluding remarks	133
	Suggested readings	136
Chapter 8	The Church, the British Conquest, and the Quebec Act
	The British Conquest	137
	The church and the Conquest	138
	The state of the church on the eve of the Conquest	139
	The immediate effects of the British invasion	143
	British religious policy, 1759-1765	145
	The Quebec Act and its aftermath (1774-1776)	154
	The Quebec Act, 1774	154
	The instructions to Carleton (1775)	155
	The aftermath (1775-1776)	156
	Suggested readings	157
Chapter 9	Revivals in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
	The origins of Protestantism in Canada	159
	The organization and governance of Protestant churches	161
	Establishing Protestantism in Canada	162
	Atlantic Canada	163
	Upper Canada	164
	The development and renewal of Protestantism	165
	Protestant denominations	166
	Protestant evangelicalism	167
	Protestant revivals	170
	Catholic renewal	173
	Catholic ultramontanism	173
	Ultramontanism in early-nineteenth-century Canada	176
	Renewal in Amerindian religions	177
	Suggested readings	179
Chapter 10	Missionary Agencies
	Protestant missionary agencies	181
	Eighteenth-century agencies	182
	Nineteenth-century agencies: the leading missionary agencies	183
	Converting French Canada	185
	Missions in Canada's northwest	189
	Auxiliary missionary agencies	189
	Catholic missionary agencies	190
	Religious orders	191
	Missionary agencies of men	193
	Missionary agencies of women	199
	Conclusion	202
	Suggested readings	202
Chapter 11	The Churches and the State
	The structure and development of the churches	206
	The Roman Catholic Church	206
	The Church of England	211
	The Presbyterians	216
	Methodists	217
	Baptists and other Protestants	219
	Clergy reserves	220
	The separation of church and state	222
	Suggested readings	224
Chapter 12	The Evangelical Crusade
	Common characteristics of evangelical Christians	226
	Consequences of evangelicalism in Canadian society	229
	Protestant Diversity	234
	Eschatology, Apocalyptic, Millennialism, and Adventism	234
	Millennialism	234
	Adventism	238
	Holiness	240
	Ultramontanism in Canada	241
	Reinforcing the ultramontane centre	243
	Moral teaching, piety, and devotions of ultramontane Catholics	246
	Ultramontanes in Canadian society	249
	Conclusion	252
	Suggested readings	252
Chapter 13	Alternatives to the Evangelical Crusade
	Why some opposed the evangelical crusades	255
	Social reasons	256
	Intellectual reasons	258
	Ideological reasons	261
	Religious reasons	263
	Christian alternatives to the evangelical crusade	264
	Liberal Protestantism	264
	Christian social reformers	265
	Mennonites and Hutterites	266
	Religious pluralism	268
	Judaism	270
	Spiritualism	271
	Theosophy	271
	Freemasonry	272
	Amerindians	273
	Louis Riel	275
	The Metis leader	275
	Riel's religion	278
	The reaction to Riel's crusade	281
	Suggested readings	283
Chapter 14	Confessional Education
	Education in Canada before 1850	285
	Schools in New France	285
	Schools between 1760 and 1840	286
	The revolution in schools during the 1840s	288
	Public and confessional schools in Canada after 1850	290
	Public schools	290
	Separate schools	294
	Recent developments in public and separate schools	295
	The education of women	296
	Colleges and universities	298
	The education of Canada's Amerindians	301
	Conclusion	307
	Suggested readings	308
Chapter 15	Modernity versus Conservatism
	The meaning of modernity	311
	The meaning of Christian conservatism	314
	Religions divide over the issue of modernity	315
	The Protestant reaction to modernity	316
	The emerging conservative movement	316
	Bible schools	317
	Neo-orthodox theology	318
	Fundamentalism divides denominations	320
	The Catholic reaction to modernity	322
	Reinforcing Catholic traditionalism	323
	Modernism	324
	The Jewish reaction to modernity	327
	The Amerindian reaction to modernity	328
	Conclusion	329
	Suggested readings	330
Chapter 16	Social Christianity
	Introduction	331
	The Social Gospel	332
	What is the Social Gospel?	333
	The leaders of the Social Gospel	334
	The reaction of Protestant churches to the Social Gospel	335
	The Protestant reform of Canada	335
	Catholic social doctrine	338
	The encyclical Rerum Novarum	338
	Quadragesimo Anno	339
	Renewed social doctrine after 1960	340
	Pope Paul VI	341
	Pope John Paul II	343
	Implementing Catholic social doctrine	345
	Perennial social engagement by the Catholic Church	345
	Intensified social action	345
	Catholic Action	348
	Conclusion	350
	Suggested readings	351
Chapter 17	Secularization and Church Reform
	Secularization	353
	Vatican II: the reform of Catholicism	355
	The central objectives of Vatican II	356
	Means to achieve these objectives	356
	Protestantism in question	366
	Cooperative Christianity	369
	The World Council of Churches (WCC)	370
	The Canadian Council of Churches (CCC)	371
	The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC)	372
	The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB)	372
	Ecumenical social action	373
	Recent developments in Canadian Christianity	374
	Suggested readings	376

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