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"""The usual interpretation of this transformation has attributed it to secular forces that were protesting clerical rigidity as much as political control. Gauvreau instead argues strongly that there was a masculine, muscular Catholicism at work, a desire for change led by practicing Catholics. The case is convincingly made."" Choice ""This is a work of precision, subtlety, rigor, and complexity."" Dominque Marshall, history, Carleton University"

The usual interpretation of this transformation has attributed it to secular forces that were protesting clerical rigidity as much as political control. Gauvreau instead argues strongly that there was a masculine, muscular Catholicism at work, a desire for change led by practicing Catholics. The case is convincingly made. Choice This is a work of precision, subtlety, rigor, and complexity. Dominque Marshall, history, Carleton University

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Michael Gauvreau, professor of history at McMaster University, is the author and editor of numerous works, including Mapping the Margins: Families and Social Disciplines in Canada, 1700-1970 and Cultures of Citizenship in Postwar Canada, 1940-1955.

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