Rethinking church, state, and modernity : Canada between Europe and America / edited by David Lyon and Marguerite Van Die.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lyon, David, 1948-

Van Die, Marguerite.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church and state--Canada.

Church and state.

Church and state--United States.

Religion and state.

United States.

Religion and state--Canada.

Religion and state--United States.

Canada.

Physical Description:

xiv, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2000.

Contents:

Part 1 Patterns and Flows

1 Canada in Comparative Perspective / David Martin 23

2 Canadian Religion: Heritage and Project / Roger O'Toole 34

3 Individualism Religious and Modern: Continuities and Discontinuities / Daniele Hervieu-Leger 52

Part 2 Alignments and Alliances

4 Church and State in Institutional Flux: Canada and the United States / Kevin J. Christiano 69

5 Trudeau, God, and the Canadian Constitution: Religion, Human Rights, and Government Authority in the Making of the 1982 Constitution / George Egerton 90

6 Bearing Witness: Christian Groups Engage Canadian Politics since the 1960s / John G. Stackhouse, Jr 113

Part 3 Civic and Civil Religion

7 Resisting the 'No Man's Land' of Private Religion: The Catholic Church and Public Politics in Quebec / David Seljak 131

8 Catholicism and Secularization in Quebec / Gregory Baum 149

9 Civil Religion and the Problem of National Unity: The 1995 Quebec Referendum Crisis / Harry H. Hiller 166

Part 4 Believing and Belonging

10 Modern Forms of the Religious Life: Denomination, Church, and Invisible Religion in Canada, the United States, and Europe / Peter Beyer 189

11 'For by Him All Things Were Created ... Visible and Invisible': Sketching the Contours of Public and Private Religion in North America / Andrew S. Grenville 211

12 A Generic Evangelicalism? Comparing Evangelical Subcultures in Canada and the United States / Sam Reimer 228

Part 5 Identity, Gender, Body

13 The Steeple or the Shelter? Family Violence and Church-and-State Relations in Contemporary Canada / Nancy Nason-Clark 249

14 The Politics of the Body in Canada and the United States / John H. Simpson 263

15 Consumers and Citizens: Religion, Identity, and Politics in Canada and the United States / William H. Katerberg 283.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-338) and index.

ISBN:

0802044085

0802082130

OCLC:

44495324