• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Awaiting the Millennium : The Children of Peace and the Village of Hope, 1812-1889
  • Contributor: Schrauwers, Albert [Author]
  • Published: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016
  • Extent: 1 online resource
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.3138/9781442671126
  • ISBN: 9781442671126
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  • Keywords: Christian communities Ontario Sharon History 19th century ; Millennialism Ontario History 19th century ; Christian communities. ; Millennialism. ; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: In a small town north of Toronto there stands a beautiful and unusual church, well known locally as the Sharon Temple. It is the last remaining evidence of a nineteenth-century Quaker sect, the Children of Peace, one of the few exmaples of a millennarian movement in Canada. Albert Schrauwers explores the history of this intriguing group, which rebuilt Solomon's Temple and prophesied the coming of a Jewish Messiah who would abolish British colonial rule.Schrauwers discusses the social, political, economic, and theological context in which the Children of Peace were established and, for a time, flourished. He identifies three main periods in the development of the sect: their initial break with the Quakers during the War of 1812; their reorganization following completion of the temple in 1832; and their final reorganization following the Rebellion of 1837.Using assessment rolls and a careful analysis of relations of production, he shows how material factors influences the political process by which the sect decided what was sacred and what was not. Ultimately he provides a detailed portrait of a remarkable group of people and the times in which they lived.
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