The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970 - Volume 241

A cogent study that investigates the Catholic origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution.

About the author

Michael Gauvreau, professor of history at McMaster University, is the author and editor of numerous works, including Mapping the Margins: Families and Social Disciplines in Canada, 1700-1970 and Cultures of Citizenship in Postwar Canada, 1940-1955.

Summary

Argues that organizations such as Catholic youth movements played a central role in formulating the Catholic ideology underlying the Quiet Revolution and shows that ordinary Quebecers experienced the Quiet Revolution through a series of transformations in the expression of their Catholic identity.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Gauvreau
• Publisher: Mcgill-Queen's University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.2007
• EAN: 9780773533714
• ISBN: 978-0-7735-3371-4
• No. of pages: 522
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 227 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the; None; McGill-Queen's Studies in the Hist of Re; McGill-Queen's Studies in the; McGill-Queen's Studies in the Hist of Religion; McGill-Queen's Studies in the Hist of Re
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous