The Body or the Soul?, 2: Religion and Culture in a Quebec Parish, 1736-1901

by Frank A. Abbott

In the two centuries before the Quiet Revolution, the people of Quebec exercised a higher degree of independence from the Catholic Church than is often presumed. Investigating rural Quebec from the mid-eighteenth century to the turn of the twentieth, Frank Abbott argues convincingly that the obligations and priorities of the Church did not unswervingly rule the lives of its parishioners. The Body or the Soul? is a history of religious and cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773547118
• ISBN13: 9780773547117
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.1"