Sold Out
Sold Out
Book Categories |
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 | ||
Chapter 18 | Immigration and Religions | ||
Diverse religions of the world | 377 | ||
World religions in contemporary Canada | 381 | ||
Amerindian religions | 381 | ||
Orthodox Christianity | 381 | ||
Judaism | 384 | ||
Islam | 389 | ||
Hinduism | 393 | ||
Sikhism | 395 | ||
Buddhism | 397 | ||
Religions of China and Japan | 399 | ||
Ethnicity and religions | 401 | ||
Canada's reactions to the newcomers | 402 | ||
The churches' reactions to the newcomers | 405 | ||
Suggested readings | 406 | ||
Chapter 19 | Alternative Religions | ||
Introduction | 409 | ||
New religious movements | 411 | ||
Primal North-American religion | 411 | ||
Yoga | 411 | ||
Hare Krishna (ISKCON) | 412 | ||
Baha'i faith |
|