Religion And Public Life In Canada

Author : David Rayside,Jerald Sabin,Paul E.J. Thomas
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774835619

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Religion and Canadian Party Politics by David Rayside,Jerald Sabin,Paul E.J. Thomas Pdf

Religion is usually thought of as inconsequential to contemporary Canadian politics. This book takes a hard look at just how much influence faith continues to have in federal, provincial, and territorial arenas. Drawing on case studies from across the country, it explores three important axes of religiously based contention – Protestant vs. Catholic, conservative vs. reformer, and, more recently, opponents vs. defenders of accommodating minority religious practices. Although the extent of partisan engagement with each of these sources of conflict has varied across time and region, the authors show that religion still matters in shaping political oppositions. These themes are illuminated by comparisons to the role faith plays in the politics of other Western industrialized societies.

Author : Marguerite Van Die
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802082459

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Religion and Public Life in Canada by Marguerite Van Die Pdf

As this collection of scholarly case studies reveals, religion once played a major public role in all aspects of Canadian society, including politics, education, and culture.

Author : Marguerite Van Die
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Christianity and politics
ISBN : 6612037180

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Religion and Public Life in Canada by Marguerite Van Die Pdf

Author : Solange Lefebvre,Lori G. Beaman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442626300

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Religion in the Public Sphere by Solange Lefebvre,Lori G. Beaman Pdf

The place of religion in the public realm is the subject of frequent and lively debate in the media, among academics and policymakers, and within communities. With this edited collection, Solange Lefebvre and Lori G. Beaman bring together a series of case studies of religious groups and practices from all across Canada that re-examine and question the classic distinction between the public and private spheres. Religion in the Public Sphere explores the public image of religious groups, legal issues relating to “reasonable accommodations,” and the role of religion in public services and institutions like health care and education. Offering a wide range of contributions from religious studies, political science, theology, and law, Religion in the Public Sphere presents emerging new models to explain contemporary relations between religion, civil society, the private sector, family, and the state.

Author : Paul Bramadat,David Seljak
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442697027

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Religion and Ethnicity in Canada by Paul Bramadat,David Seljak Pdf

As the leading book in its field, Religion and Ethnicity in Canada has been embraced by scholars, teachers, students, and policy makers as a breakthrough study of Canadian religio-ethnic diversity and its impact on multiculturalism. A team of established scholars looks at the relationships between religious and ethnic identity in Canada's six largest minority religious communities: Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jews, Muslims and practitioners of Chinese religion. The chapters also highlight the ethnic diversity extant within these traditions in order to offer a more nuanced appreciation of the variety of lived experiences of members of these communities. Together, the contributors develop consistent themes throughout the volume, among them the changing nature of religious practice and ideas, current demographics, racism, and the role of women. Chapters related to the public policy issues of healthcare, education and multiculturalism show how new ethnic and religious diversity are challenging and changing Canadian institutions and society. Comprehensive and insightful, Religion and Ethnicity in Canada makes a unique contribution to the study of world religions in Canada.

Author : William Closson James
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780773538894

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God's Plenty by William Closson James Pdf

A complete religious topography of a mid-sized Canadian city in the early twenty-first century, inspired by the Harvard Pluralism Project.

Author : Stuart Macdonald,Brian P. Clarke
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773551947

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Leaving Christianity by Stuart Macdonald,Brian P. Clarke Pdf

Canadians were once church-goers. During the post-war boom of the 1950s, Canadian churches were vibrant institutions, with attendance rates even higher than in the United States, but the following decade witnessed emptying pews. What happened? In Leaving Christianity Brian Clarke and Stuart Macdonald quantitatively map the nature and extent of Canadians’ disengagement with organized religion and assess the implications for Canadian society and its religious institutions. Drawing on a wide array of national and denominational statistics, they illustrate how the exodus that began with disaffected baby boomers and their parents has become so widespread that religiously unaffiliated Canadians are now the new majority. While the old mainstream Protestant churches have been the hardest hit, the Roman Catholic Church has also experienced a significant decline in numbers, especially in Quebec. Canada’s civil society has historically depended on church members for support, and a massive drift away from churches has profound implications for its future. Leaving Christianity documents the true extent of the decline, the timing of it, and the reasons for this major cultural shift.

Author : Gordon L. Heath,Paul R. Wilson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608996810

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Baptists and Public Life in Canada by Gordon L. Heath,Paul R. Wilson Pdf

Public discussion about the relationship between religion and public life in Canada can be heated at times, and scholars have recently focused on the historical study of the many expressions of this relationship. The experience of Canada's smaller Protestant Christian groups, however, has remained largely unexplored. This is particularly true of Canada's Baptists. This volume, the first produced by the Canadian Baptist Historical Society, explores the connections between Baptist faith and Baptist activity in the public domain, and expands the focus of the existing scholarship to include a wide range of Canadian Baptist beliefs, attitudes, perspectives, and actions related to the relationship between Baptist faith and practice and public life.

Author : Gary Miedema
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780773572782

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For Canada's Sake by Gary Miedema Pdf

Breaking away from the traditional analysis of church policy, sermons, and clerical scholarship, For Canada's Sake presents an exemplary analysis of the meaning behind religiously informed public celebrations and rituals such as centennial hymns and prayers and Expo pavillions. Miedema argues that the 1967 celebrations reveal the continued importance of religion to Canadian public life, showing that a waning "Christian Canada" was being replaced by an officially "interfaith" country. The author throws into bold relief the varied attempts of government officials and religious leaders to come to terms with new Canadian and global realities, as well as the response of Canadians to their own increasing religious diversity.

Author : Robert Choquette
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780776605579

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Canada's Religions by Robert Choquette Pdf

Each Canadian Census reveals Canada to be an Overwhelmingly religious country. With nine out of ten Canadians claiming a religious affiliation of some kind - Aboriginal, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, or one of dozens of new religions - faith has necessarily had an influence on citizens' personal and social lives. In Canada's Religions, Robert Choquette offers a history of religion in Canada and examines the ongoing tug-of-war between modernity and conservatism within the religious traditions themselves. Given that religion affects so many areas of daily life, including politics, education, community standards, and general behaviour, Canada's Religions provides academics, students, and educated readers with an excellent overview of the impact of religion on Canadian life. Understanding the various religions in Canada, argues Choquette, facilitates tolerance and acceptance, and eases the hostility that people may feel towards lesser known faiths. Through illustrative stories and indepth research, Canada's Religions offers an invaluable resource, placing religion within an ever-changing social context and inviting the reader to a new level of understanding of Canada's religious faiths.

Author : James W. McAuley,Paul Nesbitt-Larking
Publisher : Springer
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319618425

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Contemporary Orangeism in Canada by James W. McAuley,Paul Nesbitt-Larking Pdf

This book uses original research and interviews to consider the views of contemporary members of the Orange Order in Canada, including their sense of political and societal purpose, awareness of the decline of influence, views on their present circumstances, and hopes for the future of Orangeism in Canada. In so doing, it details the organisational structure of Canadian society: the role of religion in public life, the changing context of multicultural Canada, and the politics of resistance of a political and social organisation in decline. This book offers a social scientific complement to existing historical work on the role of the Orange Order in Canadian society, and builds upon it through an analysis of contemporary Orangeism. It considers the Orange Order as a worldwide body and makes some comparisons and contrasts with its organisational status and membership in Ireland and elsewhere. As such, the book makes a distinctive contribution to our knowledge of a fraternal organisation and the role of religious belief and politics in contemporary society.

Author : Kurt Bowen
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0773527125

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Christians in a Secular World by Kurt Bowen Pdf

A detailed assessment of the degree to which religious commitment, or lack thereof, affects the psychological state of Canadians and the social fabric of Canada

Author : Marguerite Van Die
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0773529594

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Religion, Family, and Community in Victorian Canada by Marguerite Van Die Pdf

While we know a great deal about the role religion played in institutions in Victorian Canada, its place in home and family life has remained relatively unexplored. Drawing on a treasure trove of family papers and material culture, Marguerite Van Die depicts religion as "lived experience" in a portrait of an emblematic Protestant middle-class family in Quebec's Eastern Townships. The Colbys were members of Canada's emerging economic elite, active in the local community, public life, and politics. Their lives offer rich insights into the construction and practice of domestic religion and the moral and social legislation of early post-Confederation Canada. Taking a multidisciplinary approach that locates the home rather than the church as the primary site of religious change, Van Die concludes that the origins and continuity of Protestant religion in Victorian Canada depended on a unique set of socioeconomic and cultural forces.Van Die is a sympathetic and perceptive observer and a gifted and deft interpreter. In her examination of the Colbys of Carrollcroft she draws attention to the links connecting domestic religion and private life, business concerns, and social change in one family's life over three generations.

Author : William Closson James
Publisher : McGill-Queen's University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773585805

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God's Plenty by William Closson James Pdf

God's Plenty examines the religious landscape of Kingston, Ontario, in the twenty-first century. The rich religious life of Kingston - a mid-sized city with a strong sense of its history and its status as a university town - is revealed in a narrative that integrates material from sociological and historical studies, websites, interviews, religious and literary scholarship, and personal experience. In Kingston, as in every Canadian city, downtown parishes and congregations have dwindled, disappeared, or moved to the suburbs. Attendance at mainline churches - and their political authority - has declined. Ethnic diversity has increased within Christian churches, while religious communities beyond Christianity and Judaism have grown. Faith groups have split along liberal and conservative lines, and the number of those claiming to have no religion - or to be spiritual but not religious - has increased. Yet amidst all this, religion continues to be evident in institutions and public life and important to the lives of many Canadians. God's Plenty, a ground-breaking contribution to the study of religion in Canada and a model for future community-based research, is the first overview of the religious topography of a Canadian city, telling the story of various faith communities and adding to the study of religious diversity and multiculturalism.

Author : Pamela Dickey Young
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion and politics
ISBN : 1552665232

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Religion, Sex and Politics by Pamela Dickey Young Pdf

Same-sex marriage continues to be a heated issue in Canadian politics. Why does this issue persist in the headlines and remain so controversial? What place does religion have in legislative and legal decisions? Religion, Sex and Politics analyzes the same-sex marriage debate in Canada by examining the intersections between religion, sexuality and public policy. Furthermore, the various arguments made by religious groups, both for and against same-sex marriage, are discussed, illustrating the range of perspectives on sexuality espoused by Christian groups and the numerous ways in which they influence the outcomes of legislation and court decisions.