Includes bibliographical notes.

Introduction: Religious settlement on the Prairies / B.G. Smillie -- Historical background to prairie settlement / J.N. McCrorie -- Two faces of the New Jerusalem : Indian-Metis reaction to the missionary / Marjorie Beaucage, Emma LaRoque -- Gestae Dei Per Francos : the French Catholic experience in western Canada / Raymond J.A. Huel -- Anglicanism on the prairies : continuity and flexibility / Frank Peake -- Protestants - Prairie visionaries of the New Jerusalem : the United and Lutheran churches in western Canada / B.G. Smillie, N.J. Threinen -- New Jerusalem on the prairies : welcoming the Jews / Abraham Arnold -- Mennonites and the New Jerusalem in western Canada / T.D. Regehr -- The western settlement of Canadian Doukhobors / Koozma J. Tarasoff -- Building the New Jerusalem on the prairies : the Ukrainian experience / Stella Hryniuk, Roman Yereniuk -- St. Peter's : a German-American marriage of monastery and colony / Bede Hubbard -- Hutterites : an interview with Michael Entz / Gail McConnell -- Conclusion / B.G. Smillie.