{"product_id":"infidels-and-the-damn-churches-1","title":"Infidels and the Damn Churches","description":"\u003cp\u003eBritish Columbia is at the forefront of a secularizing movement in the English-speaking world. Nearly half its residents claim no religious affiliation, and the province has the highest rate of unbelief or religious indifference in Canada. \u003cem\u003eInfidels and the Damn Churches\u003c\/em\u003e explores the historical roots of this phenomenon from the 1880s to the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLynne Marks reveals that class and racial tensions fuelled irreligion in a world populated by embattled ministers, militant atheists, turn-of-the-century New Agers, rough-living miners, Asian immigrants, and church-going settler women. White, working-class men often arrived in the province alone and identified the church with their exploitative employers. At the same time, BC’s anti-Asian and anti-Indigenous racism meant that their “whiteness” alone could define them as respectable, without the need for church affiliation. Consequently, although Christianity retained major social power elsewhere, many people in BC found the freedom to forgo church attendance or espouse atheist views.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis nuanced study of mobility, gender, masculinity, and family in settler BC offers new insights into BC’s distinctive culture and into the beginnings of what has become an increasingly dominant secular worldview across Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lynne Marks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53614459912572,"sku":"9780774833448","price":82.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780774833448.jpg?v=1727871327","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/infidels-and-the-damn-churches-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}