Rethinking Church, State, and Modernity : Canada Between Europe and the USA.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART ONE: PATTERNS AND FLOWS -- 1 Canada in Comparative Perspective -- 2 Canadian Religion: Heritage and Project -- 3 Individualism Religious and Modern: Continuities and Discontinuities -- PART TWO: ALIGNMENTS AND ALLIANCES -- 4 Church and State in Institutional Flux: Canada and the United States -- 5 Trudeau, God, and the Canadian Constitution: Religion, Human Rights, and Government Authority in the Making of the 1982 Constitution -- 6 Bearing Witness: Christian Groups Engage Canadian Politics since the 1960s -- PART THREE: CIVIC AND CIVIL RELIGION -- 7 Resisting the 'No Man's Land' of Private Religion: The Catholic Church and Public Politics in Quebec -- 8 Catholicism and Secularization in Quebec -- 9 Civil Religion and the Problem of National Unity: The 1995 Quebec Referendum Crisis -- PART FOUR: BELIEVING AND BELONGING -- 10 Modern Forms of the Religious Life: Denomination, Church, and Invisible Religion in Canada, the United States, and Europe -- 11 'For by Him All Things Were Created ... Visible and Invisible': Sketching the Contours of Public and Private Religion in North America -- 12 A Generic Evangelicalism? Comparing Evangelical Subcultures in Canada and the United States -- PART FIVE: IDENTITY, GENDER, BODY -- 13 The Steeple or the Shelter? Family Violence and Church-and-State Relations in Contemporary Canada -- 14 The Politics of the Body in Canada and the United States -- 15 Consumers and Citizens: Religion, Identity, and Politics in Canada and the United States -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The contributors consider how Canada's religious experience is distinctive in the modern world, somewhere between the largely secularized Europe and the relatively religious United States.

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