Leaving Christianity : changing allegiances in Canada

Clarke, Brian, 1952- author.

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"Why Canadians started to walk away from organized Christianity in the 1960s and how that defection became an exodus. Canadians were once church-goers. During the post-war boom of the 1950s, Canadian churches were vibrant institutions, with attendance rates even higher than in the United States, but the following decade witnessed emptying pews. What happened? In Leaving Christianity, Brian Clarke and Stuart Macdonald quantitatively map the nature...

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Canada Church history 20th century

Christianity Canada

Irreligion Canada

Secularism Canada

Part of a Series:

Advancing studies in religion Advancing studies in religion ; 2

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ISBN:

9780773550872

Description:

xii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

What happened to Canada's mainstream Protestant denominations?
Other Protestant denominations
Canada's Roman Catholics
No religion : the growth among the disaffiliated and the unaffiliated
Major trends : why the 1960s mattered
Quo vadis Canada?

Control Number:

2608910

Other Authors:

Macdonald, Stuart, 1957- author

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