• Introduction
• The Cultural, Economic, and Political Factors that Shaped Canadian-Mexican Relations
• Conflicts, Political Upheavals, and Catholic Mutual Interests, 1917-1939
• The Union des Latins d'Amérique: Re-inventing French Canada's Transnational Relations
• The Poetics of Student Exchanges: Fighting the War's Homogenizing Consequences
• The Virgin and the Cardinal: Symbolic Politics in Manuel Ávila Camacho's Mexico
• Conclusion.

Nationalists from Quebec and Catholic militants from Mexico once shared a common cause, one that influenced international relations between their two countries. At a time when the Revolution and its aftermath in Mexico and world wars marginalized voices of political dissent in Canada, Catholics in both nations saw their cultural struggles as interconnected and worked to build transnational alliances as meaningful discourses of cultural identity. In Connected Struggles, Maurice Demers considers how and why groups from Mexico and Quebec actively sought to establish close cultural and political links. Drawing on extensive research in government, religious, and university archives in Mexico and Canada, Demers delves into the actors, their rationales, and the processes and meanings of such alliances. He proposes a reinterpretation of North-South collaboration in the Americas by analysing how the bonds created by Quebec's and Mexico's civil societies and religious communities influenced diplomatic relations, showing not only the Catholic origins of this solidarity, but its conservative - even reactionary - roots. Demers explains how the foreign ministries in Canada and Mexico both used and denounced these linkages, depending on the political gains to be made. Documenting the emergence of solidarity between French Canadians and Mexicans, Connected Struggles contributes to the understanding of the influence of civil societies in the history of international relations.
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• Introduction
• The Cultural, Economic, and Political Factors that Shaped Canadian-Mexican Relations
• Conflicts, Political Upheavals, and Catholic Mutual Interests, 1917-1939
• The Union des Latins d'Amérique: Re-inventing French Canada's Transnational Relations
• The Poetics of Student Exchanges: Fighting the War's Homogenizing Consequences
• The Virgin and the Cardinal: Symbolic Politics in Manuel Ávila Camacho's Mexico
• Conclusion.

Nationalists from Quebec and Catholic militants from Mexico once shared a common cause, one that influenced international relations between their two countries. At a time when the Revolution and its aftermath in Mexico and world wars marginalized voices of political dissent in Canada, Catholics in both nations saw their cultural struggles as interconnected and worked to build transnational alliances as meaningful discourses of cultural identity. In Connected Struggles, Maurice Demers considers how and why groups from Mexico and Quebec actively sought to establish close cultural and political links. Drawing on extensive research in government, religious, and university archives in Mexico and Canada, Demers delves into the actors, their rationales, and the processes and meanings of such alliances. He proposes a reinterpretation of North-South collaboration in the Americas by analysing how the bonds created by Quebec's and Mexico's civil societies and religious communities influenced diplomatic relations, showing not only the Catholic origins of this solidarity, but its conservative - even reactionary - roots. Demers explains how the foreign ministries in Canada and Mexico both used and denounced these linkages, depending on the political gains to be made. Documenting the emergence of solidarity between French Canadians and Mexicans, Connected Struggles contributes to the understanding of the influence of civil societies in the history of international relations.
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• Illustrations Tables Contributing Authors Introduction Lori G. Beaman (University of Ottawa, Classics and Religious Studies) and Solange Lefebvre (Universite de Montreal, Theology and Religious Sciences), Religion in the Public Sphere: An Introduction Part I - The Public Private Divide
• Chapter 1 Paul Bowlby (Saint Mary's University, Political Science), Canadian Social Imaginaries: Re-examining Religion and Secularization
• Chapter 2 Lori G. Beaman, Between the Public and the Private: Governing Religious Expression
• Chapter 3 Peter Beyer (University of Ottawa, Religious Studies), Regional Differences and Continuities at the Intersection of Culture and Religion: A Case Study of Immigrant and Second Generation Young Adults in Canada Part II - Private Life
• Chapter 4 Rubina Ramji (Cape Breton University, Philosophy and Religious Studies), Maintaining and Nurturing an Islamic Identity in Canada-Online and Offline
• Chapter 5 Yolande Cohen (Universite de Montreal, History) and Yann Scioldo-Zurcher (National Centre for Scientific Researches), Maghrebi Jewish Migrations and Religious Marriage in Paris and Montreal, 1954-1980
• Chapter 6 Nancy Nason-Clark (University of New Brunswick, Sociology), Talking about Domestic Violence and Communities of Faith in the Public Sphere: Celebrations and Challenges Part III - The Public/Private Continuum
• Chapter 7 Solange Lefebvre, Beyond Religious Accommodation in the Workplace. A Philosophy of Diversity
• Chapter 8 Margarita A. Mooney (Yale University, Sociology), Religion and the Incorporation of Haitian Migrants in Montreal
• Chapter 9 Kamala Elizabeth Nayar (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, South Asian Studies), The Intersection of Religious Identity and Visible Minority Status: The Case of Sikh Youth in British Columbia
• Chapter 10 Paul Allen (Concordia University, Theological Studies), Curricular Heresy: Theological Religious Studies and the Assessment of Religious Pluralism in Canada Part IV - Public Life
• Chapter 11 Clark Banack (York University, Political Science), Conservative Christianity, Anti-Statism and Alberta's Public Sphere: The Curious Case of Bill 44
• Chapter 12 Pascale Fournier (University of Ottawa, Law, Professor and Vice-Dean) and Erica See (University of Ottawa, Law, Doctoral Student), The "Naked Face" of Secular Exclusion: Bill 94 and the Privatization of Belief
• Chapter 13 Phillip Connor (Pew Research Centre, Forum on Religion & Public Life, Research Associate) and Matthias Koenig (University of Gottingen, Sociology/Sociology of Religion), Religion and the Socio-Economic Integration of Immigrants Across Canada Conclusion Solange Lefebvre and Lori G. Beaman.
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The place of religion in the public realm is the subject of frequent and lively debate in the media, among academics and policymakers, and within communities. With this edited collection, Solange Lefebvre and Lori G. Beaman bring together a series of case studies of religious groups and practices from all across Canada that re-examine and question the classic distinction between the public and private spheres. Religion in the Public Sphere explores the public image of religious groups, legal issues relating to "reasonable accommodations, " and the role of religion in public services and institutions like health care and education. Offering a wide range of contributions from religious studies, political science, theology, and law, Religion in the Public Sphere presents emerging new models to explain contemporary relations between religion, civil society, the private sector, family, and the state.
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• 1 Scots, Irish, and American Roots in Canadian Covenanter Communities
• 2 Clarke and Sommerville: Can the Centre Hold?
• 3 Sommerville at Horton and Cornwallis
• 4 Alexander McLeod Stavely and Saint John
• 5 James Reid Lawson and Barnesville
• 6 Robert Miller Stewart and Wilmot
• 7 Robert Sommerville: Fitful Follower of a Powerful Father
• 8 Thomas McFall and Robert Park
• 9 Lower Canada Covenanters and the Scots Synod
• 10 Upper Canada Covenanters and the Scots Synod
• 11 Transfer, Transition, and Challenge in Upper Canada
• 12 Picking up the Pieces: Covenanters in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
• 13 Conventers in Alberta
• 14 Covenanters in Saskatchewan
• 15 Covenanters in Manitoba
• 16 Covenanters in Twentieth-Century Ontario.

In The Covenanters in Canada, Eldon Hay sheds light on a religious community often overlooked in the chronicle of Canadian history. A group of religious and political dissenters who opposed the interference by the Stuart kings in the affairs of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, the Covenanter movement was small, but had deep roots worthy of attention and respect. This study of a resilient tradition of religious dissent reflects the value of variance in a genuinely pluralistic society. The Covenanters objected to a ruler who was both the head of state and head of the church. Tracing the theological and historical significance of the movement in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States, Hay outlines the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of Covenanter missionaries in the Maritimes, Upper and Lower Canada, and the West. Despite fierce opposition from rival denominations, the Covenanters ultimately survived to carve a niche for themselves and develop a precarious relationship with other denominations and secular society - a relationship that remains tenacious and tenuous. A comprehensive study of a minority religious movement, The Covenanters in Canada is an insightful perspective on the evolving relationship between small religious movements and the majority culture.
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• 1 Scots, Irish, and American Roots in Canadian Covenanter Communities
• 2 Clarke and Sommerville: Can the Centre Hold?
• 3 Sommerville at Horton and Cornwallis
• 4 Alexander McLeod Stavely and Saint John
• 5 James Reid Lawson and Barnesville
• 6 Robert Miller Stewart and Wilmot
• 7 Robert Sommerville: Fitful Follower of a Powerful Father
• 8 Thomas McFall and Robert Park
• 9 Lower Canada Covenanters and the Scots Synod
• 10 Upper Canada Covenanters and the Scots Synod
• 11 Transfer, Transition, and Challenge in Upper Canada
• 12 Picking up the Pieces: Covenanters in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
• 13 Conventers in Alberta
• 14 Covenanters in Saskatchewan
• 15 Covenanters in Manitoba
• 16 Covenanters in Twentieth-Century Ontario.

In The Covenanters in Canada, Eldon Hay sheds light on a religious community often overlooked in the chronicle of Canadian history. A group of religious and political dissenters who opposed the interference by the Stuart kings in the affairs of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, the Covenanter movement was small, but had deep roots worthy of attention and respect. This study of a resilient tradition of religious dissent reflects the value of variance in a genuinely pluralistic society. The Covenanters objected to a ruler who was both the head of state and head of the church. Tracing the theological and historical significance of the movement in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States, Hay outlines the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of Covenanter missionaries in the Maritimes, Upper and Lower Canada, and the West. Despite fierce opposition from rival denominations, the Covenanters ultimately survived to carve a niche for themselves and develop a precarious relationship with other denominations and secular society - a relationship that remains tenacious and tenuous. A comprehensive study of a minority religious movement, The Covenanters in Canada is an insightful perspective on the evolving relationship between small religious movements and the majority culture.
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• Introduction: preliminary remarks about Canada's Jewish community
• A general outline of Canadian Jewry to 1921
• The infrastructure of Canadian Jewry: the establishment of schools, newspapers, and agricultural settlements
• General Zionism in Canada before the First World War
• Labour Zionism in Canda, 1905-1914: the Poale Zion
• The First World War: divisions within Canadian Jewry, 1914-1917
• The coaliscing of the two streams and the formation of the Jewish Legion, 1917-1919
• The Canadian Jewish Congress of 1919
• Conclusion: the consolidation of Zionist leadership and the end of immigration, 1919-1921.

Creating the Chupah assesses the role of Canadian Zionist organizations in the drive for communal unity within Canadian Jewry in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Two strands of Zionism, represented respectively by the Federation of Zionist Societies of Canada and Poale Zion, were often in conflicts that reflected greater disputes. The book also describes Zionist activities within the larger spectrum of Canadian Jewish life. Montreal was at the time the "capital" of Canadian Jewry, but the Jewish communities of Toronto and Winnipeg also played a significant role in these events. Srebrnik here makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of Zionism and twentieth-century Jewish life in Canada.
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• Contributors include Peter Althouse (Southeastern University), Peter Beyer (University of Ottawa), Robert K. Burkinshaw (Trinity Western University), Michael Di Giacomo (Valley Forge Christian College), Bruce L. Guenther (Trinity Western University), Randall Holm (Providence College), Pamela M.S. Holmes (Th.D. candidate, Toronto School of Theology), Stephen Hunt (University of the West of England), Martin Mittelstadt (Evangel University), David Reed (University of Toronto), Thomas A. Robinson (University of Lethbridge), Donald S. Swenson (Mount Royal College), and Michael Wilkinson (Trinity Western University).
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One of the most significant transformations in twentieth-century Christianity is the emergence and development of Pentecostalism. With over five hundred million followers, it is the fastest-growing movement in the world. An incredibly diverse movement, it has influenced many sectors of Christianity, flourishing in Africa, Latin America, and Asia and having an equally significant effect on Canada. Bringing together a previously scattered and somewhat hidden literature, Canadian Pentecostalism provides the first comprehensive overview of the subject. The collection is broad in focus, examining classical Pentecostalism, charismatic movements in the Roman Catholic and mainline Protestant traditions, and neo-Pentecostalism. Contributing authors examine historical debates about the origins of the movement, the response of Pentecostalism to institutionalization and globalization, and the roles of women, indigenous peoples, and immigrants within the Canadian movement.
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• 1. To Arms
• 2. For Justice
• 3. For the Nation
• 4. For the Empire
• 5. For Missions.

Why the Canadian Protestant churches were enthusiastic supporters of Canada's war effort in South Africa.
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• 1. To Arms
• 2. For Justice
• 3. For the Nation
• 4. For the Empire
• 5. For Missions.

Why the Canadian Protestant churches were enthusiastic supporters of Canada's war effort in South Africa.
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• Preface: Canada, Eh? William H. Swatos, Jr. Introduction: Religion and Diversity in Canada Lori G. Beaman and Peter Beyer
• 1. From Far and Wide: Canadian Religious and Cultural Diversity in Global/Local Context Peter Beyer
• 2. Quebec and Reasonable Accommodation: Uses and Misuses of Public Consultation Pauline Cote
• 3. Fearing Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Sociophobics and the Disincentive to Religious Diversity Douglas E. Cowan
• 4. Two by Two: Religion, Sexuality and Diversity in Canada Pamela Dickey Young
• 5. Does Religion Matter? Canadian Religious Traditions and Attitudes Toward Diversity Sam Reimer
• 6. Canadian Religious Diversity Online: A Network of Possibilities Christopher Helland
• 7. Old Structures, New Faces: The Presence of Wicca and Neopaganism in Canadian Prison Chaplaincies Mireille Gagnon
• 8. Between Law and Public Opinion: The Case of Quebec Solange Lefebvre
• 9. A Cross-National Comparison of Approaches to Religious Diversity: Canada, France and the United States Lori G. Beaman Afterword: Religion, Diversity, and the State in Canada John H. Simpson.
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Canada officially prides itself on being a multicultural nation, welcoming people from all around the world, and enshrining that status in its Charter of Rights and Freedoms as well as in an array of laws and policies that aim to protect citizens from discrimination on various grounds, including race, cultural origin, sexual orientation, and religion. This volume explores the intersection of these diversities, foregrounding religion as the primary focus of analysis. Taking as their point of departure the contested meaning and implications of the term diversity, the various contributions address issues such as the power relations that diversity implies, the cultural context that limits the understanding and practical acceptance of religious diversity, and how Canada compares in these matters to other countries. Taken together the essays therefore elucidate the Canadian case while also having relevance for understanding this critical issue globally.
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• Water, earth, and skies
• Intruders and defenders
• Pakaaskokan, an ancient legend and mystery
• Values for life and survival
• Relations with animals
• Mitewiwin heroes and villains
• Wihtigos and cannibal hearts
• Women and men
• Personages
• Wisakaychak.

Renowned storyteller Louis Bird shares the teachings and stories about Swampy Cree culture collected over three decades.
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• Introduction : beyond church history : recent developments in the history of religion in Canada / Michael Gauvreau, Ollivier Hubert
• The emergence of a statistical approach to social issues in administrative practices of the Catholic church in the province of Quebec / Christine Hudon, Ollivier Hubert
• Carnal connection and other misdemeanors : continuity and change in Presbyterian church courts, 1830-90 / Nancy Christie
• Evangelicals, church finance, and wealth-holding in mid-nineteenth-century St. Stephen, New Brunswick, and Calais, Maine / Hannah M. Lane
• Finishing badly : religion, authority, and clergy in late-Victorian London, Ontario / Kenneth L. Draper
• Developing Christians, Catholics, and citizens : Quebec churches and school religion from the turn of the twentieth century to 1960 / Brigitte Caulier
• The Saint Vincent de Paul Society and the Catholic charitable system in Quebec (1846-1921) / Jean-Marie Fecteau, Eric Vaillancourt
• Factories and foreigners : church life in working-class neighbourhoods in Hamilton and Montreal, 1890-1930 / Michael Gauvreau
• Churches and immigrant integration in Toronto, 1947-65 / Roberto Perin
• Governance of the Catholic church in Quebec : an expression of the distinct society? / Gilles Routhier.

• Bodily knowledge
• The prayer of faith
• A respectable movement
• Marching to Zion
• Pentecostal power
• Revivals and reactions
• Exposing the body.

"The Lord for the Body explores the ways constructions of the body, gender, and social space informed the cultural practice of Protestant faith healing in Canada. From newspaper accounts to criminal proceedings, James Opp traces the reactions of ministers, doctors, and state authorities, who denounced faith healing as dangerous to spiritual and physical health. Undaunted by such attacks, the faithful continued to seek healing through prayer, a practice that operated as a powerful devotional observance and a point of resistance to modern medicine."--Jacket.

• Bodily knowledge
• The prayer of faith
• A respectable movement
• Marching to Zion
• Pentecostal power
• Revivals and reactions
• Exposing the body.

"The Lord for the Body explores the ways constructions of the body, gender, and social space informed the cultural practice of Protestant faith healing in Canada. From newspaper accounts to criminal proceedings, James Opp traces the reactions of ministers, doctors, and state authorities, who denounced faith healing as dangerous to spiritual and physical health. Undaunted by such attacks, the faithful continued to seek healing through prayer, a practice that operated as a powerful devotional observance and a point of resistance to modern medicine."--Jacket.

• ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE: GALLICANISM""; ""1 Missionary Origins of the Catholic Church in Canada""; ""2 Church of the Conquest""; ""3 Maritime and Central Canadian Catholicism""; ""PART TWO: ROMANISM""; ""4 Ultramontane Catholicism""; ""5 Ultramontanes and Catholic Schools""; ""6 Church, Politics, and a New Canada""; ""7 Church and Society""; ""PART THREE: CANADIANISM""; ""8 Two Messianic Groups in Conflict""; ""9 Learning Respect in the Canadian West""; ""10 Catholic Responses to the Depression""; ""11 Catholics Caught between Communism and Fascism""

• ""12 Quebecization of Catholicism""""13 Canadianization of Catholicism""; ""14 Second Vatican Council and Its Challenge""; ""15 Contemporary Dynamics""; ""16 Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""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""

In A History of Canadian Catholics Terence Fay relates the long story of the Catholic Church and its followers, beginning with how the church and its adherents came to Canada, how the church established itself, and how Catholic spirituality played a part in shaping Canadian society. He also describes how recent social forces have influenced the church. Using an abundance of sources, Fay discusses Gallicanism (French spirituality), Romanism (Roman spirituality), and Canadianism - the indigenisation of Catholic spirituality in the Canadian lifestyle. Fay begins with a detailed look at the struggle of French Catholics to settle a new land, including their encounters with the Amerindians. He analyses the conflict caused by the arrival of the Scottish and Irish Catholics, which threatened Gallican church control. Under Bishops Bourget and Lynch, the church promoted a romantic vision of Catholic unity in Canada. By the end of the century, however, German, Ukrainian, Polish, and Hungarian immigrants had begun to challenge the French and Irish dominance of Catholic life and provide the foundation of a multicultural church. With the creation of the Canadian Catholic Conference in the postwar period these disparate groups were finally drawn into a more unified Canadian church. A History of Canadian Catholics is especially timely for students of religion and history and will also be of interest to the general reader who would like an understanding the development of Catholic roots in Canadian soil.
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• 1 Introduction 2 The Conquest of Souls 3 Learning to Forget 4 Medical Evangelism 5 The Politics of Repression 6 The Collectors 7 Apostles of the New Age 8 Conclusions.

Spirit Wars is an exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions of collective suffering--a process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide. Ronald Niezen approaches this topic through wide-ranging case studies involving different colonial powers and state governments: the seventeenth-century Spanish occupation of the Southwest, the colonization of the Northeast by the French and British, nineteenth-century westward expansion and nationalism in the swelling United States and Canada, and twentieth-century struggles for native people's spiritual integrity and freedom. Each chapter deals with a specific dimension of the relationship between native peoples and non-native institutions, and together these topics yield a new understanding of the forces directed against the underpinnings of native cultures.
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