For Canada's Sake: Public Religion, Centennial Celebrations, and the Re-Making of Canada in the 1960s

ISBN-13: 9780773528772 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 308 str.

Gary R. Miedema

Opis

In 1967, Canadians cheered and ate cake on Parliament Hill, spent millions on outlandish modern buildings, and flocked to the World Expo in Montreal. In his groundbreaking book, Gary Miedema uses Canada's centennial celebrations to illustrate how religion informed nation-building and national identity during the 1960s. Breaking away from the traditional analysis of church policy, sermons, and clerical scholarship,