Revivals and Roller Rinks: Religion, Leisure, and Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Small-Town Ontario (Studies in Gender and History, Band 5) - Softcover

Marks, Lynne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802078001 ISBN 13: 9780802078001

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

In this examination of the social and cultural meanings of religion and leisure in nineteenth-century small-town Ontario, Lynne Marks looks inside churches, hotel bars, fraternal lodge rooms, and roller-skating rinks to discover the extent to which a particular Protestant value system and lifestyle dominated small towns of the period. In assessing the extent of Protestant cultural influence, Marks also illuminates the nature of social relations and group identity, particularly with regard to gender, class, religion, age, and marital status.

Based primarily on a study of the towns of Thorold, Campbellford, and Ingersoll - communities situated in different areas of southern Ontario and differing significantly in economic and occupational structure and in religious composition - this investigation seeks as well to determine the nature of commonalities and differences in patterns of participation in religious and leisure activities within both middle- and working-class families. To further examine working-class values and beliefs, Marks moves beyond the local level to explore two popular working-class movements of the 1880s, the Knights of Labor and the Salvation Army, providing insights into the complexities of class and gender identity among working-class women and men and shedding light on the nature and meaning of working-class religious beliefs and practices.

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Lynne Marks is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802078001
• ISBN 13: 9780802078001
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 356
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