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Title Christianity and ethnicity in Canada / edited by Paul Bramadat and David Seljak
Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 444 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits
Contents Charting the new terrain : Christianity and ethnicity in Canada / Paul Bramadat, David Seljak -- Roman Catholics (anglophone and allophone) / Mark G. McGowan -- The francophone Roman Catholic Church / Solange Lefebvre -- Canadian Anglicanism and ethnicity / Wendy Fletcher -- Presbyterian and Reformed Christians and ethnicity / Stuart MacDonald -- The United Church of Canada : a church fittingly national / Greer Anne Wenh-in Ng -- Outsiders becoming mainstream : the theology, history, and ethnicity of being Lutheran in Canada / Bryan Hillis -- Canada's Eastern Christians / Myroslaw Tataryn -- The poetics of peoplehood : ethnicity and religion among Canada's Mennonites / Royden Loewen -- Ethnicity and evangelical Protestants in Canada / Bruce L. Guenther -- The discourse of loss and the future of Christianity and ethnicity in Canada / Paul Bramadat, David Seljak
Summary Over the past decade, scholars and policy makers interested in Canadian multiculturalism have begun to take religion much more seriously. Moreover, Christian communities have become increasingly aware of the impact of ethnic diversity on church life. However, until very recently almost no systematic academic attention has been paid to the intersection between the ethnic and religious identities of individuals or communities. This gap in both our academic literature and our public discourse represents an obstacle to understanding and integrating the large numbers of "ethnic Christians," most of whom either join existing Canadian churches or create ethnically specific congregations. In Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada, eleven scholars explore the complex relationships between religious and ethnic identity within the nine major Christian traditions in Canada. The contributors discuss the ways in which changes in the ethnic composition of these traditions influence religious practice and identity, as well as how the nine religious traditions influence communal and individual ethnic identities. An introductory chapter by Paul Bramadat and David Seljak provides a thorough discussion of the theoretical, historical, and empirical issues involved in the study of Christianity and ethnicity in Canada. This volume complements Religion and Ethnicity in Canada in which the authors address similar issues within the six major non-Christian communities in Canada, and within Canadian health care, education, and politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Multiculturalism Canada.
SUBJECT Multiculturalism Canada fast
Subject Christianity -- Canada
Ethnicity -- Canada
Ethnicity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Church and minorities -- Canada
Religious pluralism -- Canada
Religious pluralism -- Christianity.
Multiculturalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Multiculturalism -- Canada
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
Multiculturalism
Christianity
Church and minorities
Ethnicity
Ethnicity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Multiculturalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Religion
Religious pluralism
Religious pluralism -- Christianity
SUBJECT Canada -- Religion
Subject Canada
Form Electronic book
Author Bramadat, Paul, 1967-
Seljak, David, 1958-
LC no. 2008299501
ISBN 9781442687622
1442687622