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Infidels and the Damn Churches

Author : Lynne Marks
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774833479

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Infidels and the Damn Churches by Lynne Marks Pdf

British Columbia is at the forefront of a secularizing movement in the English-speaking world. Nearly half its residents claim no religious affiliation, and the province has the highest rate of unbelief or religious indifference in Canada. Infidels and the Damn Churches explores the historical roots of this phenomenon. Lynne Marks reveals that class and racial tensions fuelled irreligion in frontier BC, a world populated by embattled ministers, militant atheists, turn-of-the-century New Agers, rough-living miners, Asian immigrants, and church-going settlers. This nuanced study of mobility, masculinity, and family in settler BC offers new insights into the beginnings of what has become an increasingly dominant secular worldview across Canada.

Infidels and the Damn Churches

Author : Lynne Marks
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0774833467

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Infidels and the Damn Churches by Lynne Marks Pdf

British Columbia is at the forefront of a secularizing movement in the English-speaking world. Nearly half its residents claim no religious affiliation, and the province has the highest rate of unbelief or religious indifference in Canada. Infidels and the Damn Churches explores the historical roots of this phenomenon. Lynne Marks reveals that class and racial tensions fuelled irreligion in frontier BC, a world populated by embattled ministers, militant atheists, turn-of-the-century New Agers, rough-living miners, Asian immigrants, and church-going settlers. This nuanced study of mobility, masculinity, and family in settler BC offers new insights into the beginnings of what has become an increasingly dominant secular worldview across Canada.

Christian Witness in Cascadian Soil

Author : Ross A. Lockhart
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725260252

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Christian Witness in Cascadian Soil by Ross A. Lockhart Pdf

The Centre for Missional Leadership at St. Andrew’s Hall, Vancouver, has curated a dynamic collection of essays from missional thinkers in church and academy. Together, they explore both the pitfalls and possibilities of Christian witness in the post-Christendom soil of the Pacific Northwest. What does it mean to till, plant, and nurture Christian community while awaiting growth in the rocky soil of secularity, in this West Coast land better known for its hipsters, baristas, and outdoor lifestyle? Each chapter is an attempt to dust for divine fingerprints at work within the church and wider culture, giving evidence of God’s activity in our midst. Within this book you will encounter women and men who are finding hopeful ways to proclaim and live the gospel that are bearing fruit and growing hope within Christian communities and the neighborhoods they call home.

Not Quite Us

Author : Kevin P. Anderson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Studies in the
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773556553

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Not Quite Us by Kevin P. Anderson Pdf

How anti-Catholicism reflected and constructed English Canadian identity in the twentieth century and why it remains important today.

Better Than Brunch

Author : Jason Byassee,Ross A. Lockhart
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725281172

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Better Than Brunch by Jason Byassee,Ross A. Lockhart Pdf

What could be better than brunch on a Sunday morning? For most people in Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, the answer of gathering to worship the Triune God and be sent as witnesses would not be top of mind. And yet, across the Pacific Northwest the authors discovered deeply rooted missional communities worshipping God and serving their neighborhoods, offering evidence of unexpected Cascadian treasure in clay jars. Join the authors on a treasure hunt throughout the region as they identify new patterns of post-Christendom Christianity that will inspire and challenge your understanding of church.

Water from Dragon's Well

Author : David Kim-Cragg
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780228013037

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Water from Dragon's Well by David Kim-Cragg Pdf

A Canadian-built mission house in the heart of Seoul became the heart of the emerging South Korean democratization movement, while a Korean minister rose to serve as the spiritual leader of Canada’s largest Protestant denomination. The century-long Korean-Canadian church relationship has had a lasting influence on Korean society and on the culture and mission of the United Church of Canada, helping to crack the colonial foundations of Canadian Protestantism. Water from Dragon’s Well explores the connection between the Korean Christian community and the Canadian church and its missionaries from the 1890s to the present. Upon the arrival of Canadian missionaries, Korean Christian churches were already voicing nationalist aspirations; by the mid-twentieth century, they were demanding independence from Canadian missionary oversight and were participating in a wider democratic movement within South Korea. David Kim-Cragg traces indigenous churches’ resistance to decades of missionary paternalism and the ways they channelled their religious and political energies. Accepting the criticism of its hosts, the United Church of Canada helped build an independent Korean Christian church and, in 1974, ended its Korean mission. This shift in the Canadian missionaries’ colonial attitudes also contributed to the transformation of the United Church of Canada back home. With the help of Korean leadership in Canada, the church reconstructed its vision of non-Western Christianity and, in a watershed moment, established an ethnic ministry council. Situated within ongoing conversations about the legacies of colonization and racism, Water from Dragon’s Well shows how wellsprings of religion and politics from Korea challenged and transformed white Canadian attitudes and institutions.

Towards a Godless Dominion

Author : Elliot Hanowski
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228019572

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Towards a Godless Dominion by Elliot Hanowski Pdf

In recent surveys, one in four Canadians say they have no religion. A century ago Canada was widely considered to be a Christian nation, and the vast majority of Canadians claimed they were devoutly religious. But some were determined to resist. In the 1920s and ’30s, groups of militant unbelievers formed across Canada to push back against the dominance of religion. Towards a Godless Dominion explores both anti-religious activism and the organized opposition unbelievers faced from Christian Canada during the interwar period. Despite Christianity’s prominence, anti-religious ideas were propagated by lectures in theatres, through newspapers, and out on the streets. Secularist groups in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver actively tried to win people away from religious belief. In the first two cities, they were met with stiff repression by the state, which convicted unbelievers of blasphemous libel, broke up their meetings, and banned atheistic literature from circulating. In the latter two cities unbelievers met social disapproval rather than official persecution. Looking at interwar controversies around religion, such as arguments about faith healing and fundamentalist campaigns against teaching evolution, Elliot Hanowski shows how unbelievers were able to use these conflicts to get their skeptical message across to the public. Challenging the stereotype of Canada as a tolerant, secular nation, Towards a Godless Dominion returns to a time when intolerant forms of Christianity ruled a country that was considered more religious than the United States.

Christianity

Author : Jason Byassee,Albert Y. S. Chu,Ross A. Lockhart
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666752540

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Christianity by Jason Byassee,Albert Y. S. Chu,Ross A. Lockhart Pdf

Is God changing the face of the church in North America today? The secularization thesis makes it appear that churches are inevitably declining in membership and influence. Too often, however, this assumption of decline is based on only watching the denominations that were "church plants of Western Christendom" in North America. Christianity: An Asian Religion in Vancouver focuses on the context of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and notes through a mixed-methods study including interviews and participant observation that many churches in Vancouver with predominantly Asian composition are growing both in size and influence. What might we learn about God's transforming power by looking to Asia rather than Europe to predict the future of Christian witness in the Pacific Northwest of North America?

Historical Dictionary of Canada

Author : Stephen Azzi,Barry M. Gough
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538120347

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Historical Dictionary of Canada by Stephen Azzi,Barry M. Gough Pdf

Canada has become a leader among the modern nations of the world. It has emerged as a modern industrial nation, and as a key player in the resource, commodities, and financial institutions that make up today’s world. This third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Canada contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. It includes over 700 cross-referenced entries on a wide range of topics, covering the broad sweep of Canadian history from long before European contact until present day. Topics include Indigenous peoples, women, religion, regions, politics, international affairs, arts and culture, the environment, the economy, language, and war. This is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Canada. It introduces readers to the successes and failures, the conflicts and accommodations, the events and trends that have shaped Canadian history.

The Battle for Christian Britain

Author : Callum G. Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108421225

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The Battle for Christian Britain by Callum G. Brown Pdf

Exposes the mechanisms by which conservative Christianity dominated British culture during 1945-65 and their subsequent collapse.

Expanding Energy

Author : Christopher H. Evans,Mark A. Lamport
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666731231

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Expanding Energy by Christopher H. Evans,Mark A. Lamport Pdf

This book is the seventh and final volume in the Global Story of Christianity series. The volume’s chapters, written by major scholars in the field, spotlight vital episodes and themes for understanding the historical development of Christianity in the United States and Canada. Serving as an accessible text for students and an informative volume for scholars, the book provides new insights into Christianity’s development in North America, offering fresh perspectives on topics frequently overlooked by scholars. The book situates the history of North American Christianity within broader themes associated with Christianity’s role as a global religion.

A Liberal-Labour Lady

Author : Veronica Strong-Boag
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774867276

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A Liberal-Labour Lady by Veronica Strong-Boag Pdf

A Liberal-Labour Lady restores British Columbia’s first female MLA and the British Empire’s first female cabinet minister to history. An imperial settler, liberal-labour activist, and mainstream suffragist, Mary Ellen Smith (1863–1933) demanded a fair deal for “deserving” British women and men in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She strove to shift Liberal parties leftward to benefit women and workers, while still embracing global assumptions of British racial superiority and bourgeois feminism’s privileging of white women. In the BC legislature until 1928, Smith campaigned for better wages, pensions, and greater justice, even as she endorsed anti-Asian, settler, and pro-eugenic policies. Simultaneously intrepid and flawed, Smith is revealed to be a key figure in early Canada’s compromised struggle for greater justice.

Religion at the Edge

Author : Paul Bramadat,Patricia O'Connell Killen,Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774867658

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Religion at the Edge by Paul Bramadat,Patricia O'Connell Killen,Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme Pdf

The Cascadia bioregion – British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon – has long been at the forefront of cultural shifts occurring throughout North America, in particular regarding religious institutions, ideas, and practices. Religion at the Edge explores the rise of religious “nones,” the decline of mainstream Christian denominations, spiritual and environmental innovation, increasing religious pluralism, and the growth of smaller, more traditional faith groups. The first research-driven book to address religion, spirituality, and irreligion in the Pacific Northwest, past and present, Religion at the Edge expands our understanding of the nature, scale, and implications of socio-religious changes in North America, and the relevance of regionalism to that discussion.

A Constructive Critique of Religion

Author : Mia Lövheim,Mikael Stenmark
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350113107

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A Constructive Critique of Religion by Mia Lövheim,Mikael Stenmark Pdf

Why do some strategies for critique of religion seem to be more beneficial for constructive engagement, whereas others increase intolerance, polarization, and conflict? Through an analysis of the reasons underpinning a critique of religion in institutional contexts of secular democratic societies, A Constructive Critique of Religion explores how constructive interaction and critique can be developed across diverse interests. It shows how social and cultural conditions shaping these institutions enable and structure a critical and constructive engagement across diverging worldviews. A key argument running through the book is that to develop constructive forms of critique a more thorough and systematic investigation of resources for criticism located within religious worldviews themselves is needed. Chapters also address how critique of Islam and Christianity in particular is expressed in areas such as academia, the law, politics, media, education and parenting, with a focus on Northern Europe and North America. The interdisciplinary approach, which combines theoretical perspectives with empirical case studies, contributes to advancing studies of the complex and contentious character of religion in contemporary society.

Saving Liberalism from Itself

Author : Timothy Stacey
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529215489

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Saving Liberalism from Itself by Timothy Stacey Pdf

In the wake of populism, Timothy Stacey’s book critically reflects on what is missing from the liberal project with the aim of saving liberalism. It explains that populists have harnessed myth, ritual, magic and tradition to advance their ambitions, and why opponents need to embrace rather than eschew them. Using examples of liberally oriented activists in Vancouver, it presents an accessible theorization of these quasi-religious concepts in secular life. The result is to provide both a new theoretical understanding of why liberalism fails to engage people, and a toolkit for campaigners, policymakers and academics seeking to bridge the gap between liberal aspirations and lived experiences, in order to promote political engagement and to create unity out of division.