Everyday Sacred: Religion in Contemporary QuebecHillary Kaell 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. Contributors include: Emma Anderson (University of Ottawa), Randall Balmer (Dartmouth College), Hélène Charron (Université Laval), Elysia Guzik (University of Toronto), Laurent Jérôme (Université du Québec à Montréal), Norma B. Joseph (Concordia University), Cory Andrew Labrecque (Université Laval), Deirdre Meintel (Université de Montréal), Géraldine Mossière (Université de Montréal), Frédéric Parent (Université de Québec à Montréal), Meena Sharify-Funk (Wilfrid Laurier University). |
Contents
| 3 | |
WORSHIP AND PRACTICE | 29 |
PUBLICS AND PLACES | 127 |
NEW FRONTIERS AND THE BEYOND | 213 |
Afterword | 254 |
Notes | 259 |
| 321 | |
Contributors | 339 |
| 343 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
activities American associated Atikamekw attend authority become belief Bill called Canada Canadian caretakers Catholic Catholicism cent chapter Christian church collective contemporary context continuity cross cultural developed diversity drum edited especially ethnic example experience expression faith forms French gatherings give healing human identity immigrants important individual institutional interview Iraqi issues Jewish Jews language lived majority means minority Montreal movement Muslim nature North noted parish participation particular past pastoral Pentecostal pilgrimage political population powwow practice prayers present Press priest province Quebec Québécois question religion religious remains response ritual rural sacred Saint scholars secular sense shared shrine social society space spiritual studies symbols t’beet things tion traditional transhumanism Transhumanist University University Press values visitors volume women young