Religion and public life in Canada: historical and comparative perspectives

Introduction / Marguerite Van Die

Pt. 1. Reconstructing the Public: The Impact of Nineteenth-Century Disestablishment

1. Constructing Public Religions at Private Sites: The Anglican Church in the Shadow of Disestablishment / William Westfall

2. Evangelicals and Public Life in Southern New Brunswick, 1830-1880 / T. W. Acheson

3. Religion and Public Space in Protestant Toronto, 1880-1900 / Brian Clarke

4. Elaborating a Public Culture: The Catholic Church in Nineteenth-Century Quebec / Roberto Perin

Pt. 2. Contested Spaces: The Ambiguities of Religion in the Public Sphere

5. State, the Church, and Indian Residential Schools in Canada / J. R. Miller

6. Missionaries, Scholars, and Diplomats: China Missions and Canadian Public Life / Alvyn Austin

7. Continental Divides: North American Civil War and Religion as at Least Three Stories / Mark Noll

Pt. 3. Claiming 'Their Proper Sphere': Women, Religion, and the State

8. Evangelical Moral Reform: Women and the War against Tobacco, 1874-1900 / Sharon Anne Cook

9. Religion and the Shaping of 'Public Woman': A Post-Suffrage Case Study / Mary Kinnear

Pt. 4. Religion's Redefinition of the Role of the State: The Example of Prairie Populism

10. Young Man Knowles: Christianity, Politics, and the 'Making of a Better World' / Eleanor J. Stebner

11. Premier E. C. Manning, Back to the Bible Hour, and Fundamentalism in Canada / David Marshall

Pt. 5. Matters of State: Redefining the Sacred in Public Life, 1960-2000

12. Catholicism's Quiet Revolution': Maintenant and the New Public Catholicism in Quebec after 1960 / David Seljak

13. Christian Recessional in Ontario's Public Schools / R. D. Gidney and W. P. J. Millar

14. From a Private to a Public Religion: The History of the Public Service Christian Fellowship / Don Page

Pt. 6. Bearing Witness: The Voice of Religious Outsiders in Public Life

15. 'Justice and Only Justice Thou Shalt Pursue': Considerations on the Social Voice of Canada's Reform Rabbis / Gerald Tulchinsky

16. Canadian Mennonites and a Widening World / Harold Jantz

17. Sikhism and Secular Authority / Hugh Johnston.