Everyday sacred : religion in contemporary Quebec / edited by Hillary Kaell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaell, Hillary, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Advancing studies in religion ; 3.

Advancing studies in religion ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and sociology.

Québec (Province)--Religion--21st century.

Québec (Province).

Religion and sociology--Québec (Province).

Religion and politics--Québec (Province).

Religion and politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 356 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Over the last decade there has been ongoing discussion about the place of religion in Québécois society, particularly following the proposed Charter of Quebec Values in 2013. The essays in Everyday Sacred emerged from this active and often tense period of debate. Revitalizing an awareness of how people encounter, create, and employ religion in everyday life, contributors to this volume explore communities' networks of beliefs, traditions, and relationships. Through broad comparisons beyond the Quebec context, contributors look at African Pentecostal congregations, an Iraqi Jewish community in Montreal, a rural Catholic parish on the Saint Lawrence River, and Tewehikan drumming in Wemotaci. They also examine wayside crosses, places of pilgrimage and devotion, debates on the regulation of the hijab, and the place of Montreal Spiritualists and transhumanists in the religious landscape. Seeking a holistic definition of Québécois religion, Everyday Sacred considers religious and secular identity, pluralism, the bodily and material aspects of religion, the impact of gender on community and the public sphere, and the rise of hybridity, sociality, and new technologies in transnational and online networks, in order to uncover the transmission of practices and beliefs from one generation to another. Disrupting familiar dichotomies between Catholicism and other religions, "founders" and immigrants, new religious movements and traditional institutions, Everyday Sacred marks the beginning of a sustained conversation on contemporary religion in Quebec, both inside and outside of the province. Book jacket.

Contents:

Section 1 Worship and Practice

1 Pentecostal Immigrants in a Neoliberal Age: The Young and the Restless / Géraldine Mossière Mossière, Géraldine 31

2 Constructing Today's Church: Gendered Religious Practice in a Rural Parish / Frédéric Parent Parent, Frédéric, Hélène Charron Charron, Hélène 54

3 Powwow Music: Tradition and Innovation in Indigenous Cosmologies / Laurent Jérôme Jérôme, Laurent 75

4 T'beet: Situating Iraqi Jewish Identity through Food / Norma Baumel Joseph Joseph, Norma Baumel 99

Section 2 Publics and Places

5 Place Making and People Gathering at Rural Wayside Crosses / Hillary Kaell Kaell, Hillary 129

6 Pilgrims' Presence: Catholic Continuity in Quebec / Emma Anderson Anderson, Emma 156

7 Muslim Veiling and the Legacy of Laïcité / Meena Sharify-Funk Sharify-Funk, Meena, Elysia Guzik Guzik, Elysia 186

Section 3 New Frontiers and the Beyond

8 Individualized Religion and Sociality among Montreal Spiritualists / Deirdre Meintel Meintel, Deirdre 215

9 Transhumanism, (Secular) Religion, and the Biotech Age: Liberation from the Lamentable / Cory Andrew Labrecque Labrecque, Cory Andrew 234.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780773552432

077355243X

Publisher Number:

40027794860

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.