A Profusion of spires : religion in nineteenth-century Ontario.
Grant, John Webster.
A Profusion of spires : religion in nineteenth-century Ontario. - University of Toronto Press, ©1988. - 1 online resource (x, 291 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates) - Ontario historical studies series. .
Contents -- The Ontario Historical Studies Series -- Preface -- 1 Spirits of the Land -- 2 Uprooted Traditions -- 3 Foundations -- 4 Varieties of Pioneer Religion -- 5 Atlantic Triangle -- 6 Religion on the Hustings -- 7 New Measures -- 8 Echoes of Europe -- 9 Affairs of State -- 10 Mission Accomplished -- 11 The Activist Temper -- 12 The Beckoning Vision -- 13 Strains in the Fabric -- 14 The Anatomy of Ontario Religion -- Notes -- Picture credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M No -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w -- y -- z
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In their heyday, Ontario's churches were the acknowledged arbiters of acceptable belief and respectable behaviour. Denominational affiliation was a key factor in determining whom people married, what colleges they chose for their children, how they voted, and in some cases what they wore. The central role of religion in provincial life did not spring spontaneously from the pious inclinations of settlers; it was carefully planted and nurtured by missionaires from Britain and the United States. Theirs was a continuing struggle, beset with relics of frontier barbarism on one hand and the preoccupation with material pogress on the other. Their dominant position had scarcely been won when it began to be threatened by the emergence of new social and intellectual patterns. But the roots still run deep: even today one only has to propose changes in the school system or in Sunday-retail legislation to discover how deeply the chuches have shaped provincial assumptions and attitudes. John Webster Grant traces the development of religion in Ontario from before the arrival of European settlers until the end of the nineteenth century. Here we meet sober (and not so sober) representatives of the 'three churches' of England, Scotland, and Rome, fervent Methodist saddle-bag preachers, plain Mennonites and Quakers, colourful Children of Peace, and many others. We follow the course of conflicts and controversies that arose from different views of the appropriateness of government aid to churches or their educational institutions. We see Ontarians trying to change the world or to maintain ancestral folkways, in either case for religious reasons. Above all, we are given a picture of what it meant to be religious in Nineteenth-century Ontario, and a clearer understanding of controversies still bitter today.
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22573/ctt2jxt70 JSTOR
1800-1899
Geschichte 1800-1900.
Religious thought--Ontario--19th century.
Pensée religieuse--Ontario--19e siècle.
HISTORY--General.--Canada
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
Religion
Religious thought
Religion
Ontario--Religion--19th century.
Ontario--Church history--19th century.
Ontario--Religion--19e siècle.
Ontario--Histoire religieuse--19e siècle.
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario Religions, history
Church history
BR575.O5 / G73 1988
291/.09713 209/.713
A Profusion of spires : religion in nineteenth-century Ontario. - University of Toronto Press, ©1988. - 1 online resource (x, 291 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates) - Ontario historical studies series. .
Contents -- The Ontario Historical Studies Series -- Preface -- 1 Spirits of the Land -- 2 Uprooted Traditions -- 3 Foundations -- 4 Varieties of Pioneer Religion -- 5 Atlantic Triangle -- 6 Religion on the Hustings -- 7 New Measures -- 8 Echoes of Europe -- 9 Affairs of State -- 10 Mission Accomplished -- 11 The Activist Temper -- 12 The Beckoning Vision -- 13 Strains in the Fabric -- 14 The Anatomy of Ontario Religion -- Notes -- Picture credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M No -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w -- y -- z
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In their heyday, Ontario's churches were the acknowledged arbiters of acceptable belief and respectable behaviour. Denominational affiliation was a key factor in determining whom people married, what colleges they chose for their children, how they voted, and in some cases what they wore. The central role of religion in provincial life did not spring spontaneously from the pious inclinations of settlers; it was carefully planted and nurtured by missionaires from Britain and the United States. Theirs was a continuing struggle, beset with relics of frontier barbarism on one hand and the preoccupation with material pogress on the other. Their dominant position had scarcely been won when it began to be threatened by the emergence of new social and intellectual patterns. But the roots still run deep: even today one only has to propose changes in the school system or in Sunday-retail legislation to discover how deeply the chuches have shaped provincial assumptions and attitudes. John Webster Grant traces the development of religion in Ontario from before the arrival of European settlers until the end of the nineteenth century. Here we meet sober (and not so sober) representatives of the 'three churches' of England, Scotland, and Rome, fervent Methodist saddle-bag preachers, plain Mennonites and Quakers, colourful Children of Peace, and many others. We follow the course of conflicts and controversies that arose from different views of the appropriateness of government aid to churches or their educational institutions. We see Ontarians trying to change the world or to maintain ancestral folkways, in either case for religious reasons. Above all, we are given a picture of what it meant to be religious in Nineteenth-century Ontario, and a clearer understanding of controversies still bitter today.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9781442670419 144267041X
22573/ctt2jxt70 JSTOR
1800-1899
Geschichte 1800-1900.
Religious thought--Ontario--19th century.
Pensée religieuse--Ontario--19e siècle.
HISTORY--General.--Canada
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
Religion
Religious thought
Religion
Ontario--Religion--19th century.
Ontario--Church history--19th century.
Ontario--Religion--19e siècle.
Ontario--Histoire religieuse--19e siècle.
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario Religions, history
Church history
BR575.O5 / G73 1988
291/.09713 209/.713