Pilgrims In Lotus Land

Author : Robert K. Burkinshaw
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773565296

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Pilgrims in Lotus Land by Robert K. Burkinshaw Pdf

Burkinshaw traces the growth of conservative Protestantism in British Columbia from its clashes with liberal Protestants in the early twentieth century; through the post-World War II years when a bewildering variety of smaller groups, including Baptist and Pentecostal denominations as well as Mennonite, Reformed, and Evangelical Free churches, became important; to the 1970s when the majority of worshipping Protestants belonged to evangelical groups. He examines the factors that made evangelicalism more adaptable to changes in the geographic, ethnic, and social distribution of the province's population, and argues that while the evangelical movement in BC was influenced by American fundamentalism it was not simply an extension of the American campaign. He also examines the impact of evangelicals on provincial politics, most particularly their role in the rise of the Social Credit Party. Burkinshaw provides a wealth of new information on the phenomenon of twentieth-century evangelicalism and challenges us to rethink the nature of religious conservatism.

Author : Robert Kenneth Burkinshaw
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0773512861

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Pilgrims in Lotus Land by Robert Kenneth Burkinshaw Pdf

Pilgrims in Lotus Land explores the remarkable growth of evangelicalism in an intensely secular province during the twentieth century. Robert Burkinshaw explains why evangelicalism held such appeal, paying particular attention to the distinctive character

Author : Robert K. (Robert Kenneth) Burkinshaw
Publisher : National Library of Canada
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : OCLC:20250605

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Strangers and Pilgrims in Lotus Land [microform] : Conservative Protestantism in British Columbia, 1917-1981 by Robert K. (Robert Kenneth) Burkinshaw Pdf

Author : Herbert George Ponting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Japan
ISBN : UOM:39015070333979

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In Lotus-land Japan by Herbert George Ponting Pdf

Author : Taylor Murray,Paul R. Wilson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725260733

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Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism, 1878–1978 by Taylor Murray,Paul R. Wilson Pdf

As the first single-volume work to present a national picture of Baptist engagement with the fundamentalist movement in Canada in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism fills an important gap in the historiography. It explores the contributions of well-known fundamentalists, such as T. T. Shields, William "Bible Bill" Aberhart, and J. J. Sidey, while also introducing the reader to several lesser-known figures, including Joshua Denovan, E. J. Stobo, and T. A. Meister. Together, these studies demonstrate the diversity of the fundamentalist movement as it emerged and developed across Canada. By drawing on material from across the country, Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism addresses old themes in new ways--and, in the process, raises a variety of questions and possibilities for new avenues of study.

Author : Prabhavati C. Reddy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317806301

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Hindu Pilgrimage by Prabhavati C. Reddy Pdf

In recent years, changes in religious studies in general and the study of Hinduism in particular have drawn more scholarly attention to other forms of the Hindu faith that are concretely embodied in temples, icons, artworks, rituals, and pilgrimage practices. This book analyses the phenomenon of pilgrimage as a religious practice and experience and examines Shrî Shailam, a renowned south Indian pilgrimage site of Shiva and Goddess Durga. In doing so, it investigates two dimensions: the worldview of a place that is of utmost sanctity for Hindu pilgrims and its historical evolution from medieval to modern times. Reddy blends religion, anthropology, art history and politics into one interdisciplinary exploration of how Shrî Shailam became the epicentre for Shaivism. Through this approach, the book examines Shrî Shailam’s influence on pan-Indian religious practices; the amalgamation of Brahmanical and regional traditions; and the intersection of the ideological and the civic worlds with respect to the management of pilgrimage centre in modern times. This book is the first thorough study of Shrî Shailam and brings together phenomenological and historical study to provide a comprehensive understanding of both the religious dimension and the historical development of the social organization of the pilgrimage place. As such, it will be of interest to students of Hinduism, Pilgrimage and South Asian Studies.

Author : Brian T. Thorn
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774832113

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From Left to Right by Brian T. Thorn Pdf

In From Left to Right, Brian Thorn explores what motivated Canadian women to become politically engaged in the 1940s and ’50s. Although women in these decades are often depicted as being trapped in the suburbs, they joined diverse political parties, including the CCF, Social Credit, and the Communist Party of Canada. Thorn argues, controversially, that while women on the “left” and “right” had different goals, their activism continued to be informed by maternalism. They used their roles as wives and mothers to influence their parties’ positions and to break down barriers. Along the way, they laid the foundations for the 1960s feminist movement.

Author : George A. Rawlyk
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : 077351547X

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Aspects of the Canadian Evangelical Experience by George A. Rawlyk Pdf

Aspects of the Canadian Evangelical Experience explores Canadian evangelicalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, placing it within historical, cultural, and theological frameworks. --from publisher description.

Author : David Rayside,Jerald Sabin,Paul E.J. Thomas
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774835619

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Religion and Canadian Party Politics by David Rayside,Jerald Sabin,Paul E.J. Thomas Pdf

Religion is usually thought of as inconsequential to contemporary Canadian politics. This book takes a hard look at just how much influence faith continues to have in federal, provincial, and territorial arenas. Drawing on case studies from across the country, it explores three important axes of religiously based contention – Protestant vs. Catholic, conservative vs. reformer, and, more recently, opponents vs. defenders of accommodating minority religious practices. Although the extent of partisan engagement with each of these sources of conflict has varied across time and region, the authors show that religion still matters in shaping political oppositions. These themes are illuminated by comparisons to the role faith plays in the politics of other Western industrialized societies.

Author : Tina Block
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780774831314

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The Secular Northwest by Tina Block Pdf

The image of a rough frontier – where working men were tempted away from church on Sundays by more profane concerns – was perpetuated by postwar religious leaders troubled by the decline in church involvement. Tina Block debunks the myth of a godless frontier, revealing a Pacific Northwest that rejected organized religion – but not necessarily God. Not just working men but also women, families, and middle-class communities helped to shape the region’s secular identity. Drawing on oral histories, census data, newspapers, and archival sources, Block launches this exploration of Northwest secularity and the independent spirit of those who chose to live irreligiously.

Author : Pamela E. Klassen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520950443

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Spirits of Protestantism by Pamela E. Klassen Pdf

Spirits of Protestantism reveals how liberal Protestants went from being early-twentieth-century medical missionaries seeking to convert others through science and scripture, to becoming vocal critics of missionary arrogance who experimented with non-western healing modes such as Yoga and Reiki. Drawing on archival and ethnographic sources, Pamela E. Klassen shows how and why the very notion of healing within North America has been infused with a Protestant "supernatural liberalism." In the course of coming to their changing vision of healing, liberal Protestants became pioneers three times over: in the struggle against the cultural and medical pathologizing of homosexuality; in the critique of Christian missionary triumphalism; and in the diffusion of an ever-more ubiquitous anthropology of "body, mind, and spirit." At a time when the political and anthropological significance of Christianity is being hotly debated, Spirits of Protestantism forcefully argues for a reconsideration of the historical legacies and cultural effects of liberal Protestantism, even for the anthropology of religion itself.

Author : Lynne Marks
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 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.

Author : Paul Bramadat,Patricia O'Connell Killen,Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,9 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.

Author : Jean Barman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802093097

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The West Beyond the West by Jean Barman Pdf

First published in 1991 and revised in 1996, this third edition of The West beyond the West has been supplemented by new material bringing the book up to date. Barman's deft scholarship is readily apparent and the book demands to be on the shelf of anyone with an interest in British Columbian or Canadian history.

Author : Gary Richard Miedema
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0773528776

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For Canada's Sake by Gary Richard Miedema Pdf

This study uses the Centennial Celebrations of 1967 and Expo 67 to explore how religion informed Canadian nation-building and national identities in the 1960s.