Research Catalog

Title

A long eclipse : the liberal Protestant establishment and the Canadian university, 1920-1970 / Catherine Gidney.

Author

Gidney, Catherine (Catherine Anne), 1969-

Publication

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Description

xxvi, 240 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Taking a social and cultural history approach, A Long Eclipse unpacks the dominant liberal Protestant establishment that had imposed its particular vision of moral and intellectual purpose on denominational and non-denominational campuses alike." "White historians tended to date the decline of the Protestant presence on campuses to the 1920s - arguing that the seeds of its own destruction had been planted within the religion by the turn of the century - Gidney shows that its strength persisted until the late 1960s. At that time a more religiously diverse student body, the ascent of the multiversity and the swirling moral kaleidoscope of the 1960s finally eroded Protestant hegemony. The voice of liberal Protestantism was reduced to being one among many."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 32

Uniform Title

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 32.

Subject

• Church and education > Canada > History > 20th century
• Protestant churches > Canada > History > 20th century
• Universities and colleges > Canada > History > 20th century
• Église et éducation > Canada > Histoire > 20e siècle
• Églises protestantes > Canada > Histoire > 20e siècle
• Universités > Canada > Histoire > 20e siècle

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

0773528059

OCLC

• ocm55973618
• SCSB-5103850

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries