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Highly Favored Nation : The Bible and Canadian Meaning, 1860-1900
Overview
A Highly Favored Nation focuses on the ways late nineteenth-century Canadians employed biblical texts to describe Canadian identity and the meanings of their nation. Recognizing that many "ordinary" Canadians who went about their day-to-day lives probably did not have much interest in existential questions, this book focuses on the words of Canada's nationalists, preachers, promoters, and enthusiasts. A Highly Favored Nation challenges the common nineteenth-century Protestant claim that Quebec was a Bible-free zone and it suggests that, by the end of the nineteenth century, Canadians' public use of Scripture had diminished the Bible's cultural authority.
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- ISBN-13: 9780761839033
- ISBN-10: 0761839038
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publish Date: December 2007
- Dimensions: 8.93 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.45 pounds
- Page Count: 132
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