
Canadian Churches and the First World War
Gordon L. Heath(Editor)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 13. January 2014
310 pages
978-1-63087-290-8 (ISBN)
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Most accounts of Canada and the First World War either ignore or merely mention in passing the churches' experience. Such neglect does not do justice to the remarkable influence of the wartime churches nor to the religious identity of the young Dominion. The churches' support for the war was often wholehearted, but just as often nuanced and critical, shaped by either the classic just war paradigm or pacifism's outright rejection of violence. The war heightened issues of Canadianization, attitudes to violence, and ministry to the bereaved and the disillusioned. It also exacerbated ethnic tensions within and between denominations, and challenged notions of national and imperial identity. The authors of this volume provide a detailed summary of various Christian traditions and the war, both synthesizing and furthering previous research. In addition to examining the experience of Roman Catholics (English and French speaking), Anglicans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Lutherans, Mennonites, and Quakers, there are chapters on precedents formed during the South African War, the work of military chaplains, and the roles of church women on the home front.
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Gordon L. Heath (PhD, St. Michael's College) is Associate Professor of Christian History at McMaster Divinity College, where he holds the Centenary Chair in World Christianity and serves as Director of the Canadian Baptist Archives. His publications include A War with a Silver Lining: Canadian Protestant Churches and the South African War, 1899-1902 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009), and Doing Church History: A User-Friendly Introduction to Researching the History of Christianity (Clements, 2008).
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Contributors
- Introduction - Gordon L. Heath
- 1. The South African War as Prelude to the First World War - Gordon L. Heath
- 2. "We are all involved in the same issue": Canada's English-Speaking Catholics and the Great War - Mark G. McGowan
- Appendix 1: Canada's Irish Catholic Recruits by Birth-South African War, 1898-1902
- Appendix 2: Voluntary Recruitment in the Canadian Expeditionary Force by Religious Denomination to 1 June 1917
- Appendix 3: Comparison-All Units: Recruitment and Social Analysis
- Appendix 4: Sample Study-Catholic in Context-The Ottawa Valley
- Appendix 5: Irish Catholic Canadian Nurses-Recruitment and Social Analysis 1914-1918
- 3. French-Speaking Catholics in Quebec and the First World War - Simon Jolivet
- 4. "Khaki has become a sacred colour": The Methodist Church and the Sanctification of World War One - David B. Marshall
- 5. For Empire and God: Canadian Presbyterians and the Great War - Stuart Macdonald
- 6. The Anglican Church and the Great War - Melissa Davidson
- 7. "O God of Battles": The Canadian Baptist Experience of the Great War - Michael A.G. Haykin and Ian Hugh Clary
- 8. Canadian Lutherans and the First World War - Norm Threinen
- 9. Quakers and Mennonites and the Great War - Robynne Rogers Healey
- 10. Dismissed: Military Chaplains and Canadian Great War History - Duff Crerar
- 11. Paying "the price of war": Canadian Women and the Churches on the Home Front - Lucille Marr
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