Elliot B. Hanowski
Academic librarian and historian who wrote Towards a Godless Dominion: Unbelief in Interwar Canada (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2023); researcher on the history of unbelief, secularism, and atheism in Canada.
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Mar 11, 2026 • 1h 14min
Elliot B. Hanowski, "Towards a Godless Dominion: Unbelief in Interwar Canada" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2023)
Elliot B. Hanowski, an academic librarian and historian of unbelief in Canada. He discusses militant secularist groups in the 1920s and 30s, public lectures and street activism, regional clashes with dominant Christian institutions, legal battles over blasphemy, and how skeptics used controversies to gain visibility.
Mar 9, 2026 • 1h 14min
Elliot B. Hanowski, "Towards a Godless Dominion: Unbelief in Interwar Canada" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2023)
Dr. Elliot B. Hanowski, an academic librarian and historian of Canadian unbelief, explores militant secular movements in 1920s–30s Canada. He traces public lectures, newspapers, street activism, trials, and regional clashes from Montreal to Vancouver. The conversation highlights organized anti-religious campaigning, legal fights over blasphemy, and tensions between secularists and dominant Christian forces.
