Product Description: "The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution" challenges a version of history central to modern Quebec's understanding of itself: that the Quiet Revolution began in the 1960s as a secular vision of state and society which rapidly displaced an obsolete, clericalized Catholicism...read more

Product Description: Changing social and cultural strategies pursued by Protestant and Catholic religious institutions have shaped the social order in Quebec and English Canada. Through a sustained comparison of Protestantism and Catholicism, this volume explores the transition from pre-industrial to industrial society...read more

Product Description: "Cultures of Citizenship in Post-war Canada, 1940-1955" argues that we need a new view of this period, one that recognizes its considerable cultural and ideological diversity. The authors explore the quest for cultural reconstruction; the emergence of new definitions of elitism, mass culture, and the relationship between the state and the individual; the changing imperatives underlying organized labour's response to the demands of economic reconstruction; federal-provincial tensions over the shape of welfare policy; the recasting of youth identities by adult authorities and among middle-class university youth; and changing structures of authority within the family under the impact of new psychological expertise...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Christie and Gauvreau look at the ways in which reformers expanded the churches' popular base through mass revivalism, established social work and sociology in Canadian universities and church colleges, and aggressively sought to take a leadership role in social reform by incorporating independent reform organizations into the church-sponsored Social Service Council of Canada...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "The Evangelical Century" will undoubtedly transform the way Canadian intellectual history is interpreted. Michael Gauvreau reassesses the explanations of the role of religion in English-Canadian society put forth in the last twenty years by Ramsay Cook, A...read more