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Towards a godless dominion : unbelief in interwar Canada / Elliot Hanowski.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; ; 99.Publisher: Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]Copyright date: �2023Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 330 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780228019572
  • 0228019575
  • 0228019567
  • 9780228019565
Other title:
  • Unbelief in interwar Canada
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Towards a godless dominion.DDC classification:
  • 200.971 23
LOC classification:
  • BL2530.C3 H36 2023
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Canada's Professional Atheist: Marshall Gauvin in Winnipeg, 1926-1940 -- The Winnipeg Rationalist Society -- The Sterry Trial and the Debate over Blasphemy -- Unbelief in Toronto the Good -- "Je suis un ath�ee fieff�e": Militant Unbelief in Interwar Montreal -- Unbelief on the Coasts -- Conclusion.
Summary: "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."-- Provided by publisher.
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Introduction -- Canada's Professional Atheist: Marshall Gauvin in Winnipeg, 1926-1940 -- The Winnipeg Rationalist Society -- The Sterry Trial and the Debate over Blasphemy -- Unbelief in Toronto the Good -- "Je suis un ath�ee fieff�e": Militant Unbelief in Interwar Montreal -- Unbelief on the Coasts -- Conclusion.

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

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