Awaiting the Millennium : : The Children of Peace and the Village of Hope, 1812-1889 / / 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 explore...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
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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