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Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec
Genevieve Zubrzycki
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBCQ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Through much of its existence, Quebec's neighbors called it the priest-ridden province. Today, however, Quebec society is staunchly secular, with a modern welfare state built on lay provision of social services a transformation rooted in the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s. In Beheading the Saint, Genevi ve Zubrzycki studies that transformation through a close investigation of the annual Feast of St. John the Baptist of June 24. The celebrations of that national holiday, she shows, provided a venue for a public contesting of the dominant ethno-Catholic conception of French Canadian identity and, via the violent rejection ... Read more
Through much of its existence, Quebec's neighbors called it the priest-ridden province. Today, however, Quebec society is staunchly secular, with a modern welfare state built on lay provision of social services a transformation rooted in the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s. In Beheading the Saint, Genevi ve Zubrzycki studies that transformation through a close investigation of the annual Feast of St. John the Baptist of June 24. The celebrations of that national holiday, she shows, provided a venue for a public contesting of the dominant ethno-Catholic conception of French Canadian identity and, via the violent rejection ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
453 g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226391540
SKU
V9780226391540
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About Genevieve Zubrzycki
Genevieve Zubrzycki is associate professor of sociology at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec
Religion and nationalism can be intermingled in various and ever-changing ways based on the course of sociopolitical as well as cultural-symbolic contentions. Zubrzycki's work is proof that historical sociological perspectives have a lot to say on the matter.
Trajectories Elaborating the 'national sensorium' through which French Canadians became Quebecois in the late twentieth century, Zubrzycki skillfully deploys the tools ... Read more
Trajectories Elaborating the 'national sensorium' through which French Canadians became Quebecois in the late twentieth century, Zubrzycki skillfully deploys the tools ... Read more