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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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