Religion and Public Life in Canada : : Historical and Comparative Perspectives / / ed. by Marguerite Van Die.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Acheson, T.W.,; Austin, Alvyn,; Clarke, Brian,; Cook, Sharon Anne,; Gidney, R.D.,; Jantz, Harold,; Johnston, Hugh,; Kinnear, Mary,; Marshall, David,; Millar, W.P.J.,; Miller, J.R.,; Noll, Mark,; Page, Don,; Perin, Roberto,; Seljak, David,; Stebner, Eleanor J.,; Tulchinsky, Gerald,; Van Die, Marguerite,; Westfall, William,
• HerausgeberIn: Van Die, Marguerite,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part One. Reconstructing the Public: The Impact of Nineteenth-Century Disestablishment -- 1. Constructing Public Religions at Private Sites: The Anglican Church in the Shadow of Disestablishment -- 2. Evangelicals and Public Life in Southern New Brunswick, 1830-1880 -- 3. Religion and Public Space in Protestant Toronto, 1880-1900 -- 4. Elaborating a Public Culture: The Catholic Church in Nineteenth- Century Quebec -- Part Two. Contested Spaces: The Ambiguities of Religion in the Public Sphere -- 5. The State, the Church, and Indian Residential Schools in Canada -- 6. Missionaries, Scholars, and Diplomats: China Missions and Canadian Public Life -- 7. Continental Divides: North American Civil War and Religion as at Least Three Stories -- Part Three Claiming Their Proper Sphere': Women, Religion, and the State -- 8. Evangelical Moral Reform: Women and the War against Tobacco, 1874-1900 -- 9. Religion and the Shaping of 'Public Woman': A Post-Suffrage Case Study -- Part Four. Religion's Redefinition of the Role of the State: The Example of Prairie Populism -- 10. Young Man Knowles: Christianity, Politics, and the 'Making of a Better World' -- 11. Premier E.G. Manning, Back to the Bible Hour, and Fundamentalism in Canada -- Part Five. Matters of State: Redefining the Sacred in Public Life, 1960-2000 -- 12. Catholicism's 'Quiet Revolution': Maintenant and the New Public Catholicism in Quebec after 1960 -- 13. The Christian Recessional in Ontario's Public Schools -- 14. From a Private to a Public Religion: The History of the Public Service Christian Fellowship -- Part Six. Bearing Witness: The Voice of Religious Outsiders in Public Life -- 15. 'Justice and Only Justice Thou Shalt Pursue': Considerations on the Social Voice of Canada's Reform Rabbis -- 16. Canadian Mennonites and a Widening World -- 17. Sikhism and Secular Authority -- Index