Table Of ContentFROM INDIA TO ISRAEL
ii preface
mcgill-queen’s studies in the history of religion
Volumes in this series have been supported by the Jackman Foundation of Toronto.
series one g.a. rawlyk, editor
1 Small Differences 10 God’s Peoples
Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, Covenant and Land in South Africa,
1815–1922 Israel, and Ulster
An International Perspective Donald Harman Akenson
Donald Harman Akenson
11 Creed and Culture
2 Two Worlds The Place of English-Speaking
The Protestant Culture of Nineteenth- Catholics in Canadian Society,
Century Ontario 1750–1930
William Westfall Edited by Terrence Murphy and Gerald
Stortz
3 An Evangelical Mind
Nathanael Burwash and the 12 Piety and Nationalism
Methodist Tradition in Canada, Lay Voluntary Associations and the
1839–1918 Creation of an Irish-Catholic
Marguerite Van Die Community in Toronto, 1850–1895
Brian P. Clarke
4 The Dévotes
Women and Church in Seventeenth- 13 Amazing Grace
Century France Studies in Evangelicalism in Australia,
Elizabeth Rapley Britain, Canada, and the United States
Edited by George Rawlyk
5 The Evangelical Century
and Mark A. Noll
College and Creed in English Canada
from the Great Revival to the Great 14 Children of Peace
Depression W. John McIntyre
Michael Gauvreau
15 A Solitary Pillar
6 The German Peasants’ War and Montreal’s Anglican Church and the
Anabaptist Community of Goods Quiet Revolution
James M. Stayer Joan Marshall
7 A World Mission 16 Padres in No Man’s Land
Canadian Protestantism and the Canadian Chaplains and the
Quest for a New International Order, Great War
1918–1939 Duff Crerar
Robert Wright
17 Christian Ethics and Political Econo-
8 Serving the Present Age my in North America
Revivalism, Progressivism, and the A Critical Analysis
Methodist Tradition in Canada P. Travis Kroeker
Phyllis D. Airhart
18 Pilgrims in Lotus Land
9 A Sensitive Independence Conservative Protestantism in British
Canadian Methodist Women Mission- Columbia, 1917–1981
aries in Canada and the Orient, Robert K. Burkinshaw
1881–1925
Rosemary R. Gagan
Preface iii
19 Through Sunshine and Shadow 23 Evangelism and Apostasy
The Woman’s Christian Temperance The Evolution and Impact of Evangeli-
Union, Evangelicalism, and Reform in cals in Modern Mexico
Ontario, 1874–1930 Kurt Bowen
Sharon Cook
24 The Chignecto Covenanters
20 Church, College, and Clergy A Regional History of Reformed Pres-
A History of Theological Education at byterianism in New Brunswick and
Knox College, Toronto, 1844–1994 Nova Scotia, 1827– 1905
Brian J. Fraser Eldon Hay
21 The Lord’s Dominion 25 Methodists and Women’s Education in
The History of Canadian Methodism Ontario, 1836–1925
Neil Semple Johanne Selles
22 A Full-Orbed Christianity 26 Puritanism and Historical Controversy
The Protestant Churches and Social William Lamont
Welfare in Canada, 1900–1940
Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau
series two in memory of george rawlyk
donald harman akenson, editor
1 Marguerite Bourgeoys and Montreal, 7 Religion and Nationality in Western
1640–1665 Ukraine
Patricia Simpson The Greek Catholic Church and the
Ruthenian National Movement in
2 Aspects of the Canadian Evangelical
Galicia, 1867–1900
Experience
John-Paul Himka
Edited by G.A. Rawlyk
8 Good Citizens
3 Infinity, Faith, and Time
British Missionaries and Imperial
Christian Humanism and Renaissance
States, 1870–1918
Literature
James G. Greenlee and Charles M. John-
John Spencer Hill
ston
4 The Contribution of Presbyterianism
9 The Theology of the Oral Torah
to the Maritime Provinces of Canada
Revealing the Justice of God
Edited by Charles H.H. Scobie and
Jacob Neusner
G.A.Rawlyk
10 Gentle Eminence
5 Labour, Love, and Prayer
A Life of Cardinal Flahiff
Female Piety in Ulster Religious Liter-
P. Wallace Platt
ature, 1850–1914
Andrea Ebel Brozyna 11 Culture, Religion, and Demographic
Behaviour
6 The Waning of the Green
Catholics and Lutherans in Alsace,
Catholics, the Irish, and Identity in
1750–1870
Toronto, 1887–1922
Kevin McQuillan
Mark G. McGowan
iv Steven Lewis
12 Between Damnation and Starvation 23 The Holocaust, Israel, and Canadian
Priests and Merchants in Newfound- Protestant Churches
land Politics, 1745–1855 Haim Genizi
John P. Greene
24 Governing Charities
13 Martin Luther, German Saviour Church and State in Toronto‘s
German Evangelical Theological Fac- Catholic Archdiocese, 1850–1950
tions and the Interpretation of Paula Maurutto
Luther, 1917–1933
25 Anglicans and the Atlantic World
James M. Stayer
High Churchmen, Evangelicals, and
14 Modernity and the Dilemma of North the Quebec Connection
American Anglican Identities, Richard W. Vaudry
1880–1950
26 Evangelicals and the Continental
William H. Katerberg
Divide
15 The Methodist Church on the Prairies, The Conservative Protestant Subcul-
1896–1914 ture in Canada and the United States
George Emery Sam Reimer
16 Christian Attitudes towards the State 27 Christians in a Secular World
of Israel The Canadian Experience
Paul Charles Merkley Kurt Bowen
17 A Social History of the Cloister 28 Anatomy of a Seance
Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries A History of Spirit Communication in
of the Old Regime Central Canada
Elizabeth Rapley Stan McMullin
18 Households of Faith 29 With Skilful Hand
Family, Gender, and Community in The Story of King David
Canada, 1760–1969 David T. Barnard
Edited by Nancy Christie
30 Faithful Intellect
19 Blood Ground Samuel S. Nelles and Victoria
Colonialism, Missions, and the Con- University
test for Christianity in the Cape Neil Semple
Colony and Britain, 1799–1853
31 W. Stanford Reid
Elizabeth Elbourne
An Evangelical Calvinist in the
20 A History of Canadian Catholics Academy
Gallicanism, Romanism, and Canadi- Donald MacLeod
anism
32 A Long Eclipse
Terence J. Fay
The Liberal Protestant Establishment
21 The View from Rome and the Canadian University,
Archbishop Stagni’s 1915Reports on 1920–1970
the Ontario Bilingual Schools Ques- Catherine Gidney
tion
33 Forkhill Protestants and Forkhill
Edited and translated by John Zucchi
Catholics, 1787–1858
22 The Founding Moment Kyla Madden
Church, Society, and the Construction
of Trinity College
William Westfall
Preface v
34 For Canada’s Sake 45 The Churches and Social Order in
Public Religion, Centennial Celebra- Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century
tions, and the Re-making of Canada in Canada
the 1960s Edited by Michael Gauvreau and Ollivier
Gary R. Miedema Hubert
35 Revival in the City 46 Political Ecumenism
The Impact of American Evangelists in Catholics, Jews, and Protestants in De
Canada, 1884–1914 Gaulle’s Free France, 1940–1945
Eric R. Crouse Geoffrey Adams
36 The Lord for the Body 47 From Quaker to Upper Canadian
Religion, Medicine, and Protestant Faith and Community among Yonge
Faith Healing in Canada, 1880–1930 Street Friends, 1801–1850
James Opp Robynne Rogers Healey
37 Six Hundred Years of Reform 48 The Congrégation de Notre-Dame,
Bishops and the French Church, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power,
1190–1789 1693–1796
J. Michael Hayden and Malcolm R. Colleen Gray
Greenshields
49 Canadian Pentecostalism
38 The Missionary Oblate Sisters Transition and Transformation
Vision and Mission Edited by Michael Wilkinson
Rosa Bruno-Jofré
50 A War with a Silver Lining
39 Religion, Family, and Community in Canadian Protestant Churches and the
Victorian Canada South African War, 1899–1902
The Colbys of Carrollcroft Gordon L. Heath
Marguerite Van Die
51 In the Aftermath of Catastrophe
40 Michael Power Founding Judaism, 70to 640
The Struggle to Build the Catholic Jacob Neusner
Church on the Canadian Frontier
52 Imagining Holiness
Mark G. McGowan
Classic Hasidic Tales in Modern Times
41 The Catholic Origins of Quebec’s Justin Jaron Lewis
Quiet Revolution, 1931–1970
53 Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing
Michael Gauvreau
with Ecstasy
42 Marguerite Bourgeoys and the Con- The Growth of Methodism in New-
gregation of Notre Dame, 1665–1700 foundland, 1774–1874
Patricia Simpson Calvin Hollett
43 To Heal a Fractured World 54 Into Deep Waters
The Ethics of Responsibility Evangelical Spirituality and Maritime
Jonathan Sacks Calvinist Baptist Ministers, 1790–1855
Daniel C. Goodwin
44 Revivalists
Marketing the Gospel in English 55 Vanguard of the New Age
Canada, 1884–1957 The Toronto Theosophical Society,
Kevin Kee 1891–1945
Gillian McCann
vi Steven Lewis
56 A Commerce of Taste 64 After Evangelicalism
Church Architecture in Canada, The Sixties and the United Church of
1867–1914 Canada
Barry Magrill Kevin N. Flatt
57 The Big Picture 65 The Return of Ancestral Gods
The Antigonish Movement of Eastern Modern Ukrainian Paganism as an
Nova Scotia Alternative Vision for a Nation
Santo Dodaro and Leonard Pluta Mariya Lesiv
58 My Heart’s Best Wishes for You 66 Transatlantic Methodists
A Biography of Archbishop John British Wesleyanism and the Forma-
Walsh tion of an Evangelical Culture in
John P. Comiskey Nineteenth-Century Ontario and
Quebec
59 The Covenanters in Canada
Todd Webb
Reformed Presbyterianism from 1820
to 2012 67 A Church with the Soul of a Nation
Eldon Hay Making and Remaking the United
Church of Canada
60 The Guardianship of Best Interests
Phyllis D. Airhart
Institutional Care for the Children of
the Poor in Halifax, 1850–1960 68 Fighting over God
Renée N. Lafferty A Legal and Political History of
Religious Freedom in Canada
61 In Defence of the Faith
Janet Epp Buckingham
Joaquim Marques de Araújo, a
Brazilian Comissário in the Age of 69 From India to Israel
Inquisitional Decline Identity, Immigration, and the Struggle
James E. Wadsworth for Religious Equality
Joseph Hodes
62 Contesting the Moral High Ground
Popular Moralists in Mid-Twentieth-
Century Britain
Paul T. Phillips
63 The Catholicisms of Coutances
Varieties of Religion in Early Modern
France, 1350–1789
J. Michael Hayden
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From India to Israel
Identity, Immigration, and
the Struggle for Religious Equality
Edited by
JOSEPH HODES
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Montreal & Kingston • London • Ithaca
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