Religion and Canadian Party Politics

David Rayside, Jerald Sabin, Paul E.J. Thomas (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

448 Seiten

2017
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-3558-9 (ISBN)

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A unique and timely exploration of the important ways that religion shapes political conflict across Canada.

Religion is usually thought of as inconsequential to contemporary Canadian politics. Religion and Canadian Party Politics takes a hard look at just how much influence faith continues to have in federal, provincial, and territorial political arenas.

Drawing on case studies from across the country, this book explores three important axes of religiously based contention in Canada. Early on, there were the denominational distinctions between Catholics and Protestants that shaped party oppositions. Since the 1960s, a newly politicized divide opened between religious conservatives and political reformers. Then from the 1990s on, sporadic controversy has centred on the recognition of non-Christian religious minority rights. Although the extent of partisan engagement with each of these sources of conflict has varied across time and region, this book shows that religion still matters in shaping party politics .

This detailed look at the play of religiously based conflict and accommodation in Canada fills a large gap and pulls us back from overly simplified comparisons with the United States. More broadly, this book also compares the role of faith in politics in Canada to that of other Western industrialized societies.

David Rayside is a professor emeritus of political science and sexual diversity studies at the University of Toronto. Jerald Sabin is a research associate with the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation at Carleton University. Paul E.J.Thomas is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University.

Preface

Introduction: Faith and Party Politics in Canada

Part 1: Federal Politics

1 Conservative Faith and Federal Parties

2 Abortion Politics and Federal Parties

Part 2: Persistent Denominationalism in Provincial Politics

3 Religion in Atlantic Provincial Politics: The Special Cases of Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick

4 Ontario's Progressive Conservatives and Tenacious Denominational Politics, 1943–85

Part 3: Religious Conservatism and the Partisan Right

5 Sexual Diversity and the Mobilization of Faith Communities in Ontario, 1986–2015

6 The Declining Influence of Conservative Faith in Alberta since 1971

7 Schooling, Sexuality, and Religious Conservatism in British Columbia Politics

Part 4: Canada's Most Distinctive Regions

8 Conflicted Secularism in Francophone Quebec Party Politics

9 Evangelical Christianity and Northern Territorial Politics

Conclusion: Canadian Diversity in Comparative Context

Notes; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.06.2017
Zusatzinfo	5 graphs, 22 tables
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	800 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-7748-3558-3 / 0774835583
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-3558-9 / 9780774835589
Zustand	Neuware