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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