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Author Marks, Lynne

Title Revivals and Roller Rinks : Religion, Leisure, and Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Small-Town Ontario
Edition 2nd ed
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (355 pages)
Series Studies in Gender and History
Studies in gender and history.
Contents Intro -- CONTENTS -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Summary Based primarily on a study of the towns of Thorold, Campbellford, and Ingersoll this investigation seeks as well to determine the nature of commonalities and differences in patterns of participation in religious and leisure activities within both middle- and working-class families
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Subject Cities and town life -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century
Protestant churches -- Ontario -- Customs and practices
SUBJECT Ontario -- Religious life and customs
Subject Ontario
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442679344
1442679344