The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada - Brossura

Cook, Ramsay

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ISBN 10: 1442629193 ISBN 13: 9781442629196

Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 2016

Riassunto

A crisis of faith confronted many Canadian Protestants in the late nineteenth century. With their religious beliefs challenged by the new biological sciences and historical criticism of the Bible, they turned from personal salvation to the dire social problems of the industrial age. The Regenerators explores the nature of social criticism in this era and its complex ties to the religious thinking of the day, showing how the path blazed by nineteenth-century religious liberals led not to the Kingdom of God on earth, but, ironically, to the secular city.

The winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction when it was first published in 1985, The Regenerators became an instant classic for its fascinating portraits of evolutionists, rationalists, spiritualists, socialists, and free thinkers before the turn of the century. This new edition features an introduction by historian and biographer Donald Wright.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Ramsay Cook is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at York University and the former general editor of The Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Donald Wright is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Toronto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1442629193
• ISBN 13: 9781442629196
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 291
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