Awaiting the Millennium : : The Children of Peace and the Village of Hope, 1812-1889 / / Albert Schrauwers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Schrauwers, Albert,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures and Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Preface --; Photographs --; 1. The Yonge Street Settlement --; 2. The Separation of the Children of Peace --; 3. Organization --; 4. At Home and Abroad --; 5. Market and Moral Economies --; 6. Ornamenting the Christian Church --; 7. The Millennial Kingdom --; 8. Upper Canadian Politics and the Rebellion of 1837 --; 9. Aftermath --; 10. The Children of Peace in Theoretical and Historical Perspective --; Appendixes --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Name Index --; Subject Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442671126; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442671126
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Albert Schrauwers.

In a small town north of Toronto there stands a beautiful and unusual church, well known locally as the Sharon Temple. It is the last remaining evidence of a nineteenth-century Quaker sect, the Children of Peace, one of the few exmaples of a millennarian movement in Canada. Albert Schrauwers explores the history of this intriguing group, which rebuilt Solomon's Temple and prophesied the coming of a Jewish Messiah who would abolish British colonial rule.Schrauwers discusses the social, political, economic, and theological context in which the Children of Peace were established and, for a time, flourished. He identifies three main periods in the development of the sect: their initial break with the Quakers during the War of 1812; their reorganization following completion of the temple in 1832; and their final reorganization following the Rebellion of 1837.Using assessment rolls and a careful analysis of relations of production, he shows how material factors influences the political process by which the sect decided what was sacred and what was not. Ultimately he provides a detailed portrait of a remarkable group of people and the times in which they lived.