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Join Bruce Douville for an online gathering to celebrate the release of The Uncomfortable Pew: Christianity and the New Left in Toronto. Bruce Douville will speak, followed by and Q & A session. This event is sponsored by the Canadian Society of Church History and is free and open to the public.
Bruce Douville is a sessional instructor in history at Algoma University.
In The Uncomfortable Pew Bruce Douville explores the relationship between Christianity and the New Left in English Canada from 1959 to 1975. Focusing primarily on Toronto, he examines the impact that left-wing student radicalism had on Canada's largest Christian denominations, and the role that Christianity played in shaping Canada’s New Left. Based on extensive archival research and oral interviews, this study reconstructs the social and intellectual worlds of young radicals who saw themselves as part of both the church and the revolution. Douville looks at major communities of faith and action, including the Student Christian Movement, Kairos, and the Latin American Working Group, and explains what made these and other groups effective incubators for left-wing student activism.