Revivals and Roller Rinks : : Religion, Leisure, and Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Small-Town Ontario /

Revivals and Roller Rinks : : Religion, Leisure, and Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Small-Town Ontario / / Lynne Marks.

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...

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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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Marks, Lynne,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1997
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Studies in Gender and History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (330 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Church Ladies, Young Men, and Freethinkers: Church Involvement and Beyond
  • 3. Gender, Class, and Power: Church Associations and Church Improvements
  • 4. Rough and Respectable: Loafers, Drinkers, and Temperance Workers
  • 5. Mostly Male Worlds: Leisure and Associational Life
  • 6. The Salvation Army and the Knights of Labor: Religion and Working- Class Culture
  • 7. Hallelujah Lasses: Working-Class Women and the Salvation Army
  • 8. 'Safe in the Arms of Jesus': The Thorold Revival
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Appendix A. Methodological Notes
  • Appendix B Class and Occupational Groupings
  • Appendix C. Tables
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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