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From Seminary to University : An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada /

"This book provides the first historical examination of the study of religion in Canada. While secular departments of religious studies would not emerge in Canada until the late 1960s, the teaching of religion under the guise of divinity, theology, the Bible, and moral philosophy has been omnip...

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Autor principal: Hughes, Aaron W., 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- Introduction -- Religion, Politics, Individuals -- Precursors to the Present Volume: The State-of-the-Art Reviews -- English versus French Canada? -- Definition of "the Study of Religion" -- Contents -- 1. Inauspicious Beginnings -- Historical Contexts -- Precursors to Royal Charters -- The Church of England and the Founding of Colonial Universities -- McGill -- Queen's -- McMaster -- Conclusions -- 2. The University of Toronto: A Case Study -- Establishing an Imperial College 
505 0 |a King's College (Toronto) Opens Its Doors -- Theological Colleges -- The Baldwin Act (1849) -- The Hincks Act (1853) -- The Federation Act (1887) -- Conclusions -- 3. Late Victorian Scholarship and the Rise of Higher Criticism -- The Recruitment of Faculty -- The Comparative Study of Religion -- Biblical and Oriental Studies: Maintaining the Equilibrium -- Higher Criticism: The Floodgates Open -- James F. McCurdy: Higher Criticism Enters the Mainstream -- Conclusions -- 4. Westward Bound -- Confederation -- The CPR -- Western Canada: Four Paradigms of Universities -- University of Saskatchewan 
505 0 |a University of Alberta -- University of Manitoba -- University of British Columbia -- Two Models of Religion and Politics on the Prairies: William Aberhart and Tommy Douglas -- Conclusions -- 5. Battle Lines -- Canadian Denominationalism -- Denominationalism and Its Limitations on the Study of Religion -- The United Church of Canada: A Brief History -- Oriental Studies and the University of Toronto -- Religious Knowledge: A Precursor to Religious Studies -- The Canadian Society of Biblical Studies (CSBS) -- Conclusions -- 6. Venues of Dissemination 
505 0 |a The Canadian Journal of Religious Thought (1924-32) -- Trends -- Historical Criticism -- Final Volume -- Conclusions -- 7. From Seminary to University -- Behind the Scenes -- Multiculturalism (1971) -- Scholarly Organizations Devoted to the Study of Religion -- Canadian Theological Society (CTS) -- Canadian Society of Church History (CSCH) -- Societe canadienne de theologie (SCT) -- Canadian Society for the Study of Religion / Societe canadienne pour l'etude de la religion (CSSR/SCÉR) -- Societe quebecoise pour l'etude de la religion (SQÉR) 
505 0 |a Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion / Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses (CCSR) -- Studies in Religion / Sciences religieuses (SR) -- Religious Studies vs. Theology -- George P. Grant (1918-1988) -- Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916-2000) -- Klaus K. Klostermaier (1933-) -- Conclusions -- 8. Florescence -- McGill (1949) -- McMaster (1960) -- UBC (1964) -- Universite de Montreal (1969) and Universite du Quebec à Montreal (1972) -- University of Manitoba (1968) -- University of Toronto (1969) -- University of Alberta (1973) -- Dalhousie (1973) 
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