The Church of England, Print Networks and the Book of Common Prayer in the North-Eastern Atlantic Colonies, c. 1750– c. 1830
Despite its ubiquitous presence, the Anglican church in colonial Atlantic Canada has received little attention from scholars. Beginning with the missionary activities of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) which relied on significant revenue from enslaved labour in Barbados, this cha...
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Edinburgh University Press
2020
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474459037.003.0007 |
| Summary: | Despite its ubiquitous presence, the Anglican church in colonial Atlantic Canada has received little attention from scholars. Beginning with the missionary activities of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) which relied on significant revenue from enslaved labour in Barbados, this chapter examines the influence of Anglicanism from Newfoundland to Nova Scotia. It argues that, despite its uniform literature, the Church of England adapted to local circumstances to the extent that it even supplied bi-lingual missionaries to “Foreign Protestants” in the region. This established a diversity of peculiar characteristics and features among Atlantic Canadian congregations that were often maintained after the authority of the episcopal hierarchy was more firmly established during the nineteenth century. |
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