Revivals and Roller Rinks

Marks, Lynne

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“…Existing research for Ontario suggests that women predominated less in the Baptist churches than in those of other denominations. 65 It is therefore perhaps not surprising that the three Baptist papers consulted expressed less concern about the relative absence of men from the churches than did other church periodicals.…”

Section: Gender Region and Christian Anxietiesmentioning

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“A Fragment of Heaven on Earth”? Religion, Gender, and Family in Turn-of-the-Century Canadian Church Periodicals

Marks¹

2001

Journal of Family History

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This article examines the ideals and anxieties about gender, family, and religion expressed in nineteen turn-of-the-century Canadian Christian journals. This article reveals the existence of a range of common ideals across denominations. Idealization of the Christian home was shared as was a profoundly unrealistic idealization of the Christian role of mothers. While religious anxieties were similar in many ways across denominations and regions, they did differ in both expected and more surprising directions. Anxieties about men's religious roles were strongest in British Columbia, where a skewed gender ratio left many men without the "civilizing" and Christianizing influence of white women. While young men were the focus in British Columbia, francophone Catholics tended to focus more attention on the religiously delinquent husband and father. Despite efforts to draw men into family prayer, most denominations recognized the increasingly strong association between women, Christianity, and the home and granted women Christian leadership roles in this important sphere.

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Section: Gender Region and Christian Anxietiesmentioning

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“A Fragment of Heaven on Earth”? Religion, Gender, and Family in Turn-of-the-Century Canadian Church Periodicals

Marks¹

2001

Journal of Family History

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“…She points out, for example, that members of working-class families were more likely to make individual decisions about church membership than were middle-class family members. 21 While studies such as Marks' have tended to focus on small towns, we must assume (as she does) that social relations operated differently in larger towns and cities where workers at least had the option of worshipping in predominantly working-class congregations. 22 Much, in other words, remains to be learned about the evolution of the relationship between Protestant religion and social categories such as class and gender in response to the changing social geography of the nineteenth-century Canadian city.…”

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Protestant Restructuring in the Canadian City: Church and Mission in the Industrial Working-Class District of Griffintown, Montreal

Trigger¹

2002

Urban History Review

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Increasing social and spatial segregation along class lines in nineteenth-century Montreal brought about a restructuring of the city's Protestant churches. This paper compares the strategies adopted by Anglicans and Presbyterians as they attempted to reorganize and improve their provision of church accommodation in the industrial working-class suburb of Griffintown between 1860 and the turn of the century. It demonstrates that while denominational responses to the changes taking place were strikingly similar in many respects, class differences within the working classes nevertheless resulted in a complex array of churches and missions, each catering to a slightly different niche within the community. It is argued Griffintown's places of worship not only came to reflect the transformation of class relations that emerged with industrialization but also created opportunities for the negotiation of these new relations within the religious sphere.La croissance de la ségrégation sociale et géographique à Montréal au XIXe siècle a forcé les églises protestantes à se réorganiser pour mieux servir les besoins de la population. Cet article compare les stratégies adoptées par les communautés anglicanes et presbytériennes pour améliorer l’approvisionnement des églises dans la banlieue industrielle de Griffintown, entre 1860 et la fin du XIXe siècle. Même si les stratégies adoptées par les anglicans et les presbytériens étaient semblables à bien des égards, les distinctions sociales entre différents éléments de la classe ouvrière ont néanmoins mené à la création d’une grande variété d’églises et de missions, chacune servant un groupe particulier de la population. Ainsi, les édifices consacrés au culte à Griffintown étaient non seulement un reflet des nouvelles relations entre les classes sociales produites par l’industrialisation, mais jouaient également un rôle important dans la négociation de ses nouveaux rapports sociaux

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“…She argues that historians have underestimated the cross-class appeal of a "rough" masculinity rooted in "physical strength, recourse to violence, danger, and a certain wildness among youth." 19 The ideals of "responsible, respectable breadwinner" and "rowdy rough" coexisted in such groups as fraternal orders, fire brigades, militia companies, and sports clubs. 20 Although middleclass sports associations sought to shape the manly character of young men in accordance with respectable ideals, the members of amateur sports teams sometimes pushed the boundaries of upright behaviour.…”

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“Nothing More Than the Usual Injury”: Debating Hockey Violence During the Manslaughter Trials of Allan Loney (1905) and Charles Masson (1907)

Lorenz¹,

Osborne²

2015

J Historical Sociology

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This historical case study of violence in Canadian hockey examines media coverage of two manslaughter trials: the 1905 trial of Allan Loney and the 1907 trial of Charles Masson. Both players stood accused of killing opposing players by striking them in the head with their hockey sticks. In each case, the offending player was acquitted in the courts, mainly because such violence was deemed intrinsic to the sport. Injuries that resulted from violent acts were downplayed or ignored; even death from a deliberate stick attack could be rationalized as an unfortunate accident. Newspaper accounts of the deaths, trials, and subsequent acquittals offer valuable insight into the cultural narratives surrounding hockey violence and notions of masculinity in early twentieth-century Canada. These cases generated considerable debate around the issue of what constituted "clean" and "rough" hockey. The game reports, trial coverage, and public opinion examined in this case study suggest that stick-swinging incidents and aggressive play have been regarded as ordinary and "proper" aspects of "strenuous hockey" for more than a century. The historical examination of such cases is important because the justifications for violence that were articulated in the context of the deaths continue to be voiced in contemporary discussions of hockey violence. As long as fighting and aggression remain markers of masculinity -and hockey continues to be seen as a training ground for manhood -it will be difficult to remove such forms of violence from the sport.

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Revivals and Roller Rinks

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“A Fragment of Heaven on Earth”? Religion, Gender, and Family in Turn-of-the-Century Canadian Church Periodicals

“A Fragment of Heaven on Earth”? Religion, Gender, and Family in Turn-of-the-Century Canadian Church Periodicals

Protestant Restructuring in the Canadian City: Church and Mission in the Industrial Working-Class District of Griffintown, Montreal

“Nothing More Than the Usual Injury”: Debating Hockey Violence During the Manslaughter Trials of Allan Loney (1905) and Charles Masson (1907)

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