Religion, Family, And Community in Victorian Canada
Subtitle: The Colbys of Carrollcroft (Mcgill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion)
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: March 20, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780773529595
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; History of religion; History; Religion - Church History; History: World; Canada; Canada - Post-Confederation (1867-); Christianity - History - Protestant; Canada - General; 19th century; Case studies; Evangelicalism; Family; Religion and sociology; Religious aspects
Description: "The lives of the Colby family offer insights into the construction and practice of domestic religion and the moral and social legislation of early post-Confederation Canada. Taking a multidisciplinary approach that locates the home rather than the church as the primary site of religious change, Van Die concludes that the origins and continuity of Protestant religion in Victorian Canada depended on a unique set of socioeconomic and cultural forces. Religion, Family, and Community in Victorian Canada is an intimate portrait of "lived religion" as experienced by a middle-class family over three generations."--Jacket.