Religion In Canada Research Articles

The family transmission of religion in Canada: An intergenerational approach to religious socialization

This article seeks to measure the effect of parental socialization on the intergenerational transmission of religion and religiosity levels in Canada. Basing the analysis on the cohort replacement theory, the author is able to quantify the intergenerational change in religiosity. The use of a novel database – The Transmission of Religion across Generations – allows the author to demonstrate that there was an intergenerational decline in affiliation within all of the religious groups analysed (Catholicism, mainline Protestant, evangelical and Pentecostal, Islam, and ‘other religions’) and that the average level of religiosity is also decreasing. Among the socialization factors examined, only ‘talking about religion with certain family members’ and ‘the presence of religion in the household during childhood’ had a positive effect on the religiosity of the respondents. However, despite the positive effect of these indicators, the results reveal that their strength is not sufficient to reverse the overall trend of intergenerational religious decline and general secularization.

From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada by Aaron W. Hughes (review)

From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada by Aaron W. Hughes (review)

IDENTITIES UNDER CONSTRUCTION; RELIGION, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY AMONG YOUTH IN CANADA. By Pamela DickeyYoung, and HeatherShipley. Montreal, CA: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2020. . $32.95.

Religious Studies ReviewVolume 49, Issue 1 p. 59-60 Short Reviews of Recent Publications: Gender and Sexuality Studies IDENTITIES UNDER CONSTRUCTION; RELIGION, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY AMONG YOUTH IN CANADA. By Pamela Dickey Young, and Heather Shipley. Montreal, CA: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. . $32.95. First published: 24 April 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.16351Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. Volume49, Issue1Special Issue: Unique Approaches to Christianity in Africa and BeyondMarch 2023Pages 59-60 RelatedInformation

From seminary to university. An institutional history of the study of religion in Canada. By Aaron W. Hughes. Pp. xiv + 231. Toronto–London: University of Toronto Press, 2020. £33.78. 978 1 4875 0497 7

From seminary to university. An institutional history of the study of religion in Canada. By Aaron W. Hughes. Pp. xiv + 231. Toronto–London: University of Toronto Press, 2020. £33.78. 978 1 4875 0497 7 - Volume 74 Issue 1

Aaron W. Hughes. From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada

Aaron W. Hughes. <i>From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada</i>

Aaron W. Hughes. From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of Religion in Canada

Aaron W. Hughes. <i>From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of Religion in Canada</i>

Review: Aaron W. Hughes, From Seminary to University: an Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada

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From Seminary to University in Quebec: de la théologie aux études religieuses

In his book From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada, Aaron Hughes offers a comprehensive portrait of the historical construction of the study of religion in Canada. While Hughes explains in-depth the social, political and historical conditions of production of knowledge on religion as an academic domain in provinces of Protestant heritage, his contribution is less thorough regarding the development of this academic field in the province of Quebec. In this article, I depict how the creation of institutions of knowledge in Quebec hinged around the Catholic hegemony that lasted since the inception of the colony, namely among faculties of theologies that framed main historical universities. I also argue that this heritage has shaped the ongoing construction of the study of religion as an epistemological issue between Catholic theologians and religious studies scholars.

Forging New Futures for the Study of Religion in Canada: A Review of Hughes’s From Seminary to University

Aaron W. Hughes’s monograph, From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada, argues that, unlike other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, the study of religion in Canada is imbricated with nation-state politics. The creation of Canada’s initial seminaries post-Confederation served to establish Christianity as normative. By the 1960s, these seminaries were largely replaced with departments that aimed to promote national values of multiculturalism and diversity. In her critique, Selby commends the book’s convincing argument and impressive historical archival work, and critiques the book’s limited engagement with the politics of settler colonialism and scholarly contributions in the province of Québec.

The Study of Religion and the Canadian Social Order

In his book From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada, Aaron Hughes provides a unique analysis of how the study of religion developed throughout the history of Canada by examining the evolution of its institutional context, that is, from faith-based seminaries and theological colleges to secular departments of religious studies. He situates these institutional changes in the development of the Canadian social order. In this uniquely Canadian context, the study of religion moved, Hughes notes, “from religious exclusion to secularism, from Christocentrism to multiculturalism, and from theology to secular religious studies.” While this is an important and original argument, Hughes offers only a cursory analysis of the unique developments in francophone Quebec universities (as he readily admits) and ignores the study of religion in other disciplines. Moreover, while Hughes traces the motivation for the transformation of the study of religion in the 1960s to the new ethno-religious diversity of Canada, I argue that it should be traced to a growing liberal cosmopolitanism that had infiltrated Canadian society, including its churches, seminaries, and theological colleges. Hughes does not adequately explore the religious roots of why Canadian Christians decided to secularize the study of religion. Finally, while Hughes examines patriarchy and colonialism in his analysis of the study of religion in earlier periods, he drops these topics in his discussion of the secularization of the study of religion, which did not address either of these issues sufficiently.

Mode over Matter: Response to Hughes, From Seminary to University

The story Aaron Hughes tells in From Seminary to University (2020) is at once archival and timely, not because it presumes to transport the past into the present or mine for prescriptive insights from thinkers long gone but because it “provide[s] a historical work that accounts for ‘how’ as opposed to ‘what’” (13). In presenting a narrative arc for the study of religion in Canada, the book offers a model of how nuanced historiography might attend to contemporary questions (both field-specific and more broadly) without making the past “about” or “for” us. Avoiding the trappings of recovery work as well as retrospective projection, Hughes considers the archive on its own terms while remaining cognizant of the fact that it never speaks for itself. This brief response essay greets the occasion the book provides to think about the structural framework that shapes the “how” of an academic discourse.

He shoots, he misses again, but what about our goalie…: A response

This article provides a response to the previous set of papers that have engaged my From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2020).

Defamiliarizing National Histories through Cross-National Reflections in the Study of Religion

As part of the review symposium of From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2020) by Aaron W. Hughes, this review essay compares and contrasts the narrative it tells us to other national contexts and explores what might be the Canadian peculiarities not necessarily obvious to those who have been educated in that system.

From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada. Aaron W. Hughes

<i>From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada</i>. Aaron W. Hughes

Book Reviews / Compte Rendus: From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada

Book Reviews / Compte Rendus: From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada

From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada by Aaron W. Hughes

From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada by Aaron W. Hughes. Un article de la revue Ontario History (Volume 113, numéro 1, spring 2021, p. 1-123) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

Towards a Catholic North America? Projections of Religion in Canada and the US Beyond the Mid-21st Century

Religion and religiosity are important identity markers, and changes in a country’s religious composition may affect its culture, value orientations and policies. In recent decades the Protestants in both the US and Canada have lost their absolute population majority. In the present study we investigate the future of the religious composition in both the US and Canada jointly until the 2060s taking into consideration changes due to demographic forces, the level and composition of migration, fertility differentials and intergenerational religious transmissions. The joint focus on both the US and Canada allows one to better understand the commonalities and differences between these two nations which are tightly knit in terms of geography, politics, economics and culture. The projections reveal that North America should not become Catholic by mid-century but close to, with an increasing importance of minorities in the religious landscape.

The Interface between Law and Religion in Canada

The Interface between Law and Religion in Canada

Whence, Whither, and Wherefore the Academic Study of Religion in Canada? A Prolegomenon

Whence, Whither, and Wherefore the Academic Study of Religion in Canada? A Prolegomenon

Distinctive Beliefs and Practices (华人宗教信仰和实践)

This article examines the history of Chinese religiosities in Saskatoon. Chinese Religion(s), described by Jordan and Li Paper and David Chuenyan Lai as an “unrecognized” religion in Canada, can just as easily be described as “misunderstood.” To better understand the “religion(s)” of Chinese Canadians, this exploratory essay concentrates on the population in Saskatoon from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries with the help of archival materials that range from oral interviews to photographs; headstone inscriptions and offerings at graves in Hillcrest and Woodlawn cemeteries; textual sources including newspapers, provincial statutes, books, and journal articles; and thirteen interviews conducted in 2007.这篇论文试图通过对加拿大萨斯卡通市的华人宗教信仰和实践的考察和分析说明文化上的误解是造成白人对华人负面印象的重要原因。学者描述加拿大华人的宗教信仰是“未被认可的”，不如称之为“被误解的”更为恰当。为了更好地认识和理解加籍华人的宗教信仰及其实践，这篇探索性的论文重点放在 19 世纪中至 21 世纪初加拿大萨斯卡通的华人。论文采用的档案资料包括面谈、照片、墓碑刻文、 Hillcrest 和 Woodlawn 墓地的祭物，以及包括报刊、萨省法规、书籍、期刊论文和 2007 年进行的 13 次面谈的文本资料。This article is in English.