Research Catalog

Title

A highly favored nation : the Bible and Canadian meaning, 1860-1900 / Preston Jones.

Author

Jones, Preston, 1966-

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2008.

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Details

Description

xvii, 111 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

A Highly Favored Nation focuses on the ways late nineteenth-century Canadians employed biblical texts to describe Canadian identity and the meanings of their nation. Recognizing that many "ordinary" Canadians who went about their day-to-day lives probably did not have much interest in existential questions, this book focuses on the words of Canada's nationalists, preachers, promoters, and enthusiasts. A Highly Favored Nation challenges the common nineteenth-century Protestant claim that Quebec was a Bible-free zone and it suggests that, by the end of the nineteenth century, Canadians' public use of Scripture had diminished the Bible's cultural authority. - Publisher

Subject

• Bible > Influence > Modern civilization
• 1800-1899
• Geschichte 1860-1900
• Bible and politics > Canada > History > 19th century
• Canada > Religion > 19th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [93]-111).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Bible and confederation -- Bible and Anglo-Canadian identity -- Bible and national expansion -- Bible and Quebec.
• Introduction -- The Bible and confederation -- The Bible and Anglo-Canadian identity -- The Bible and national expansion -- The Bible and Quebec -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 0761839038 (pbk.)
• 9780761839033 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 173807993
• SCSB-11645935

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library