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Religion and the State in Upper Canada, 1791-1854

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2009-03

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McLaren, Scott

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PP lecture for HUMA 2835 9.0 Christianity in Context. Describes the contest between Anglicanism and Methodism in the colony from first settlement until the disestablishment of religion in 1854. Discusses this outcome in light of the emergence of a Habermasian public sphere in the middle 1820s.

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religion, church and state, Egerton Ryerson, Methodism, established religion, John Strachan, public sphere

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