Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Family, Community, and the Rise of Liberal Society
  • Ritual Performance and Parish Sociability: French-Canadian Catholic Families at Mass from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century / Ollivier Hubert
  • The Fireside Kingdom: A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Anglican Perspective on Marriage and Parenthood / J.I. Little
  • Tribalism, Proselytism, and Pluralism: Protestants, Family, and Denominational Identity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century St. Stephen, New Brunswick / Hannah M. Lane
  • Family Fortunes and Religious Identity: The French-Canadian Protestants of South Ely, Quebec, 1850-1901 / Christine Hudon
  • Contested Family: Navigating Kin and Culture in Protestant Missions to the Tsimshian, 1857-1896 / Susan Neylan
  • Salvation in Indifference: Gendered Expressions of Italian-Canadian Immigrant Catholicity, 1900-1940 / Enrico Carlson Cumbo
  • Revisiting "Separate Spheres": Women, Religion, and the Family in Mid-Victorian Brantford, Ontario / Marguerite Van Die
  • Redemptive Homes
  • Redeeming Choices: Saving the Social in Late-Victorian London, Ontario / Kenneth L. Draper
  • Reinventing Christian Masculinity and Fatherhood: The Canadian Protestant Experience, 1900-1920 / Patricia Dirks
  • The Emergence of Personalist Feminism: Catholicism and the Marriage-Preparation Movement in Quebec, 1940-1966 / Michael Gauvreau
  • Sacred Sex: The United Church and the Privatization of the Family in Post-War Canada / Nancy Christie
  • Conclusion: "Patriarchal Piety" and Canada's Liberal Tradition.