Main entry:

Handy, Robert T.

Title & Author:

A history of the churches in the United States and Canada / Robert T. Handy.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1977, ©1976.

Description:

ix, 471 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Oxford history of the Christian Church

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 428-449) and index.
Christian outposts in the western wilderness -- Conflict and diversity in colonial Christianity (1650-1720) -- The era of the Great Awakenings in colonial America (1720-75) -- The clash of cultures : French Catholicism and British Protestantism in eighteenth-century Canada (1720-1800) -- Remoulding the churches in the American revolutionary epoch (1775-1800) -- Crusading for an American Protestant commonwealth (1800-60) -- Other keys to the kingdom: the widening spectrum of religion in America (1800-60) -- Growth, conflict, and Canadianization in the British era (1800-67) -- American evangelical Protestantism : growth and conflict (1860-1920) -- Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox, and other churches in America (1860-1920) -- Alternative visions of a Christian Canada (1867-1925) -- North American churches and the decline of Christendom.

ISBN:

0198269102
9780198269106

Subject:

Canada Church history.
United States Church history.
North America Church history.
North America.
Amérique du Nord Histoire religieuse.

Form/genre:

Church history.

Added entries:

Oxford history of the Christian Church.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 126948
Call No.: ID BR510.H35 CAN; ID:97-B1216
Status: Available