Baptists and Business
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Baptists and Business

Central Canadian Baptists and the Secularization of the Businessman at Toronto's Jarvis Street Baptist Church, 1848–1921

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Baptists and Business

Central Canadian Baptists and the Secularization of the Businessman at Toronto's Jarvis Street Baptist Church, 1848–1921

About this book

This study of Baptist businessmen from Jarvis Street Baptist Church in Toronto breaks new ground. The challenges to faith exerted by the arrival of a new materialistic social ethic and a business-dominated culture in the last half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has received little attention from Canadian historians. Instead, historians have primarily focused on religious leaders and intellectual challenges to faith. This study examines the sociocultural challenges that confronted one group of central Canadian Baptist businessmen from 1848 to 1921. Essentially, the findings offered here are used to sustain the argument that the rise of business and consumerism helped to secularize the beliefs, values, and practices of Baptist businessmen. Furthermore, the effects of secularization were profound on both the personal and church community levels.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction: Baptists and Business in Central Canada, 1848–1921
  5. Chapter 1: Central Canadian Baptists and the World, 1848–1921
  6. Chapter 2: Business in Theory and Practice
  7. Chapter 3: Business in the Church
  8. Chapter 4: Serving God and Mammon
  9. Chapter 5: Maintaining Separation
  10. Chapter 6: Secularization and Schism
  11. Chapter 7: Conclusion
  12. Appendix 1: Selected Sample of Businessmen from Jarvis Street Baptist Church, 1818–1921
  13. Appendix 2: Examples of Religious and Social Interconnections
  14. Bibliography