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Title French-Speaking Protestants in Canada : historical essays / edited by Jason Zuidema
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 318 pages) : illustrations
Series Religion in the Americas series, 1542-1279 ; v. 11
Religion in the Americas series ; v. 11. 1542-1279
Contents French-Speaking Protestants in Canada; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Presence and Marginalisation of French-Speaking Protestants in Quebec; 1. The French Monarchy and Protestant Immigration to Canada before 1760; The Social, Political and Religious Contexts; 2. Henriette Feller, The Spirit and Mission to Canada; 3. The Colonial Church and School Society and the Early Years of the Sabrevois Mission, 1850-1884; 4. The French-Canadian Missionary Society: A Study in Evangelistic Zeal and Civic Ambition
5. Clashes in Worldview: French Protestants and Roman Catholics in the 19th Century6. Promoting 'A Truly National Spirit': The Unifying Mission of Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, 1885-1896; 7. Charles Chiniquy: The Meta-Denominational and Protestant Presbyterian; 8. French Protestant Missionary Activity in Quebec from the 1850s to the 1950s; 9. The Evangelical Revivals of the 1960s-1980s; 10. French Adventism in Quebec; 11. Accommodation and Conversion: French Protestants in Quebec's Protestant Schools
12. The Other American Dream: French Baptists and Canadain the 19th and 20th Centuries13. A Brief Socio-Demographic Portrait of French-Speaking Protestantism in Quebec since 1960; Bibliography of French Protestantism in North America; Contributors; Index
Summary Although French-speaking Canadians have largely been Roman Catholic, there has been a small, but significant Protestant minority among them. This collection of essays brings together the work of leading scholars in the field to bring historical perspective on this often misunderstood or forgotten religious minority
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Protestantism -- Québec (Province) -- History
French-Canadians -- Religion
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Protestant.
French-Canadians -- Religion
Protestantism
SUBJECT Québec (Québec) -- Church history
Subject Québec
Québec -- Québec
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
Author Zuidema, Jason
LC no. 2011028624
ISBN 9789004211797
9004211799
1283280825
9781283280822
9004211764
9789004211766