| A Highly Favored Nation: The Bible and Canadian Meaning, 1860-1900 Contributor(s): Jones, Preston (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761839038 ISBN-13: 9780761839033 Publisher: University Press of America OUR PRICE: $47.51 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Protestant |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.1" W x 8.93" (0.45 lbs) 132 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Highly Favored Nation focuses on the ways late nineteenth-century Canadians employed biblical texts to describe Canadian identity and the meanings of their nation. Recognizing that many "ordinary" Canadians who went about their day-to-day lives probably did not have much interest in existential questions, this book focuses on the words of Canada's nationalists, preachers, promoters, and enthusiasts. A Highly Favored Nation challenges the common nineteenth-century Protestant claim that Quebec was a Bible-free zone and it suggests that, by the end of the nineteenth century, Canadians' public use of Scripture had diminished the Bible's cultural authority. |