Academic and popular opinions agree that Canadian public life has become wholly secularized during the last hundred years. As this book acknowledges, religion has indeed lost most of its influence in education, politics and various interest groups. But this rigorously researched volume argues that religion was one of the early institutional bases of the public sphere, and although it has since become differentiated from the state, it should not be overlooked or underestimated by historians and sociologists of modern Canada. A compilation of scholarly case studies, it addresses the continuing influence of religion on modern, 'secular' institutions and thus on shaping communal identities.
Van Die's book brings together some of Canada's leading historians of religion - including an entry by distinguished US historian, Mark Noll. Religion and Public Life in Canada shows an awareness of the effects of issues such as gender, ethnicity, and regionalism, and considers the recent influence of previously 'outsider' religions such as Judaism and Sikhism. By challenging the assumption that religion has become a matter only of private concern, and by showing its historical and continued relevance to public life, the book takes the debate over secularization on to an entirely new plane of concern.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 261.7/0971
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- 21
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- 1 electronic text (xv, 385 p.)
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 12
- Contributors 14
- Introduction 20
- Part One. Reconstructing the Public: The Impact of Nineteenth-Century Disestablishment 38
- 1 Constructing Public Religions at Private Sites: The Anglican Church in the Shadow of Disestablishment 40
- 2 Evangelicals and Public Life in Southern New Brunswick, 1830–1880 67
- 3 Religion and Public Space in Protestant Toronto, 1880–1900 86
- 4 Elaborating a Public Culture: The Catholic Church in Nineteenth-Century Quebec 104
- Part Two. Contested Spaces: The Ambiguities of Religion in the Public Sphere 124
- 5 The State, the Church, and Indian Residential Schools in Canada 126
- 6 Missionaries, Scholars, and Diplomats: China Missions and Canadian Public Life 147
- 7 Continental Divides: North American Civil War and Religion as at Least Three Stories 170
- Part Three. Claiming 'Their Proper Sphere': Women, Religion, and the State 192
- 8 Evangelical Moral Reform: Women and the War against Tobacco, 1874–1900 194
- 9 Religion and the Shaping of 'Public Woman': A Post-Suffrage Case Study 213
- Part Four. Religion's Redefinition of the Role of the State: The Example of Prairie Populism 234
- 10 Young Man Knowles: Christianity, Politics, and the 'Making of a Better World' 236
- 11 Premier E.C. Manning, Back to the Bible Hour, and Fundamentalism in Canada 254
- Part Five. Matters of State: Redefining the Sacred in Public Life, 1960–2000 272
- 12 Catholicism's 'Quiet Revolution': Maintenant and the New Public Catholicism in Quebec after 1960 274
- 13 The Christian Recessional in Ontario's Public Schools 292
- 14 From a Private to a Public Religion: The History of the Public Service Christian Fellowship 311
- Part Six. Bearing Witness: The Voice of Religious Outsiders in Public Life 328
- 15 'Justice and Only Justice Thou Shalt Pursue': Considerations on the Social Voice of Canada's Reform Rabbis 330
- 16 Canadian Mennonites and a Widening World 346
- 17 Sikhism and Secular Authority 363
- Index 380
- A 380
- B 381
- C 381
- D 384
- E 384
- F 386
- G 386
- H 387
- I 387
- J 388
- K 388
- L 388
- M 389
- N 391
- O 392
- P 393
- Q 394
- R 394
- S 397
- T 399
- U 400
- V 400
- W 400
- Y 402
- Z 402
