Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents xi
3. Acknowledgments xiii
4. Preface xvii
5. The World We Have Known
6. Growing Up Religious, Political, and Historical 3
7. Christians and the New Post-Second World War Regimes in Eastern Europe 32
8. The Great Protestant Ethic Debate: The First Phase, 1905–1960 37
9. The Origins of Totalitarianism: More than a Problem of Interpretation 55
10. From Providence to Progress
11. Providence to Progress: The Migration of an Idea in English-Canadian Thought 69
12. The Background of the Social Gospel in Canada 82
13. The Social Gospel and the Reform Tradition in Canada, 1890–1928 102
14. Consciousness, Crisis, and Consequences
15. Children of Prophecy: Wesley College Students in an Age of Reform 121
16. Salem Bland, the New Spirituality of the Social Gospel, and the Winnipeg Elite, 1903–1913 135
17. J.S. Woodsworth and the Crisis of the Canadian City 153
18. The Social Gospel as the Religion of the Agrarian Revolt in Western Canada 166
19. The New Christianity in Post-Great War Toronto 179
20. Religion and Political Transformation
21. “My Father Was an Evangelist”: The Religious Setting of Norman Bethune’s Early Years 201
22. Toward a Materialist Christianity: “Reasoning Otherwise” in the 1930s1 213
23. “The End of History” — And Hope in a Time of Cold War and After 247
24. Max Weber and the “Iron Cage of Capitalism”: The Debate Continues, 1960–2016 265
25. Myth, Religion, and the Politics of Sacred and Secular 310
26. Notes 327
27. Index 367