Quebec appears to tackle questions related to religious diversity differently than other provinces in Canada. Why is that? What role does the Catholic heritage of the province play in understanding these differences? Why does this province feel the need to legislate on the place of religion in its society, and on secularism? What are the consequences of those legislations, especially for religious minorities? This seminar seeks to answer these questions and others by examining the evolution of religion, law and politics in Quebec. The province\u2019s political history and contemporary debates on religion and secularism, as well as sites of worship and pilgrimages, are considered within the socio-cultural contexts that produced them. The course combines in-class seminar sessions, and field visits to a range of sites in Montr\u00e9al, Quebec City and Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupr\u00e9. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
More specifically, SOSC 4371 considers (and problematizes the narrative of) the province\u2019s move from the Grande Noirceur <\/em>(Great Darkness), through the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, which set the stage for the emergence of the distinct brand of Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois secularism or la\u00efcit\u00e9<\/em>. We focus on what some scholars label the \u201cQu\u00e9b\u00e9cois lurch into modernity\u201d to trace changing conceptions of, and the emerging relationships between, religious traditions, nationalism, immigration, post-colonialism, gender, and secularization. Finally, we briefly examine contemporary Judaism, Islam, and New Religious Movements, as well as Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois political and legal responses and restrictions that have followed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","pass-course-subject":[1257],"summer-aboard-year":[1334],"class_list":["post-378296","summer-abroad","type-summer-abroad","status-publish","hentry","pass-course-subject-sosc","summer-aboard-year-1334"],"yoast_head":"\n