Year: 1986
Type: article
Abstract: This paper examines the public faith which sustained the social passion of 1930’s reformers such as Leonard Marsh and other members of the League for Social Reconstruction. First, it analyses the tendency, inherent in modern social science, to privatize faith and to secularize the public realm. Second, it considers elements of this 1930’s public faith by examining the assumptions about human personality contained within F.R. Scott and David Lewis’s Make This Your Canada. Finally, it argues that the notions embedded in this public faith were rooted in the religious heritage of the nation, and were carried into the Canadian mainstream by identifiable religious organizations. The Fellowship for a Christian Social Order and the United Church of Canada both promoted the faith of social reformers and provided an explicitly theological foundation for it in Christian teachings.
Source: Journal of Canadian Studies
DOI: 10.3138/jcs.21.2.26
Author: Roger Hutchinson
Institution: University of Toronto
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2561497934