Infidels and the damn churches : irreligion and religion in settler British Columbia /
British Columbia is at the forefront of a secularizing movement in the English-speaking world. Nearly half its residents claim no religious affiliation, and the province has the highest unbelief or religious indifference in Canada. Infidels and the Damn Churches explores the historical roots of this...
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Vancouver :
UBC Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- A godless province? Counting the infidels and the indifferent
- Pie in the sky when you die : political and cultural challenges to religion
- Manly white men, fuzzy fidelity, and practical Christians : blurred boundaries of belief and chasms of racialized difference
- Sundays are so different here : communities in British Columbia, Ontario, and Nova Scotia
- Could Sodom be worse? Christianity, moral reform, and the godless of Vancouver and Victoria
- Under siege : non-Christians, racialized groups, and white women's rights
- Subtler and more dangerous forms of error : metaphysical religions.