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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Antimodernism"”.
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We go back: antimodernism in the early Catholic Worker Movement
… the early Workers also exhibited a prominent antimodernism. Maurin provided much of the basis for their antimodernism by way of his notion of history, which exalted the medieval and condemned the modern. By examining the Workers until approximately the 1950s, the study demonstrates that key …
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Building Boys, Building Canada: The Boy Scout Movement in Canada, 1908-1970
… effects of modern life through a “modernizing antimodernism.” Masculinity’s ties to political and social citizenship remained strong well into the 1960s as Scouting’s coalition of supporters sustained the belief that building better boys was the key to building a better Canada.
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Tracing warm lines: northern Canadian exploration, knowledge, and memory, 1905-1965
… in interwar Canada and the United States, namely antimodernism and the debunking of myths. The fourth and fifth chapters are detailed accounts of two knowledge projects in which these explorers participated: an informal republic of northern letters, and the preparation of an Encyclopedia Arctica …
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Weird Old Figures and a New Twist: Cultural Functions of Halloween at the Turn of the 20th Century
Halloween arrived in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century with the surge in immigration from the British Isles — especially Ireland. However, the folk holiday did not gain widespread attention until the late 1870s and 1880s when descriptive pieces containing both accounts of Halloween's …