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Title: RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE IN CANADA
HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
By: Marguerite Van Die (Editor)
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0802044611
ISBN 13: 9780802044617
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Pub. date: 15 June, 2001
Pages: 368
Description: 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.
Synopsis: 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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Publication: Canada
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
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