A Full-Orbed Christianity, Volume 22: The Protestant Churches and Social Welfare in Canada, 1900-1940

by Michael Gauvreau and Nancy Christie

Christie and Gauvreau look at the ways in which reformers expanded the churches' popular base through mass revivalism, established social work and sociology in Canadian universities and church colleges, and aggressively sought to take a leadership role in social reform by incorporating independent reform organizations into the church-sponsored Social Service Council of Canada. They also explore the instrumental role of Protestant clergymen in formulating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773513973
• ISBN13: 9780773513976
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.