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