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. Ed(S): Lyon, David A.; Van Die, Marguerite - Rethinking Church, State, and Modernity: Canada Between Europe and the USA - 9780802044082 - V9780802044082
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Rethinking Church, State, and Modernity: Canada Between Europe and the USA

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Description for Rethinking Church, State, and Modernity: Canada Between Europe and the USA hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Lyon, David A.; Van die, Marguerite. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HRAC; JFC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 665.

Ambitious in scope, Rethinking Church, State, and Modernity considers some central concepts in the sociology and history of religion and, simultaneously, how Canada's religious experience is distinctive in the modern world. The contributors to this volume challenge the institutional approach that stresses a strict division between "church" and "state", which seems inappropriate in late-modern and post-modern scenarios. Rather, the authors favour an interpretation that is marked more by fluidity than fixity.

Canada, which stands somewher between the largely secularised Europe and the relatively religious United States, is well situated as a testing ground for the leading conceptions of the fate ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802044082
SKU
V9780802044082
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About . Ed(S): Lyon, David A.; Van Die, Marguerite
David Lyon is a member of the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University. Marguerite Van Die is Associate Professor, Queen’s University/Queen’s Theological College.

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