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Revivalists : marketing the gospel in English Canada, 1884-1957 / Kevin Kee.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; ; 44.Publication details: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2006.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780773560093
  • 0773560092
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Revivalists.DDC classification:
  • 269/.2092271 22
LOC classification:
  • BV3777.C36 K44 2006eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
A night at the theatre : Hugh Crossley, John Hunter, and the marketing of late nineteenth-century mainstream Protestant revivalism -- Anything at all to get a crowd : Oswald J. Smith and fundamentalist revivalism between the wars -- Reflecting "the ditinctive character of the age" : Frank Buchman and the Oxford Group in Canada, 1932-1934 -- "In tune with the times" : Charles Templeton and post-World War II revivalism.
Summary: In Canada, the latter half of the nineteenth century marked a profound break with the settler past and the beginning of an age of commercialization. Kevin Kee shows how Protestant evangelists used theatre, film, and jazz to make religion personally relevant to their audiences.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)404853

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-264) and index.

A night at the theatre : Hugh Crossley, John Hunter, and the marketing of late nineteenth-century mainstream Protestant revivalism -- Anything at all to get a crowd : Oswald J. Smith and fundamentalist revivalism between the wars -- Reflecting "the ditinctive character of the age" : Frank Buchman and the Oxford Group in Canada, 1932-1934 -- "In tune with the times" : Charles Templeton and post-World War II revivalism.

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In Canada, the latter half of the nineteenth century marked a profound break with the settler past and the beginning of an age of commercialization. Kevin Kee shows how Protestant evangelists used theatre, film, and jazz to make religion personally relevant to their audiences.