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