Religion and Diversity in Canada
Many Canadians are pleased to think of their country as being open to religious and cultural diversity. This collection shows just how closed Canadian society has been throughout most of its history and, in some respects, still is. In the opening chapter, Peter Beyer provides a summary of the histor...
| Published in: | Sociology of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2010
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Sociology of religion
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| Review of: | Religion and diversity in Canada (Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2008) (Nixon, Laurence)
Religion and diversity in Canada (Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2008) (Nixon, Laurence) |
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| Summary: | Many Canadians are pleased to think of their country as being open to religious and cultural diversity. This collection shows just how closed Canadian society has been throughout most of its history and, in some respects, still is. In the opening chapter, Peter Beyer provides a summary of the history of discriminatory policies of the Canadian government toward Native Canadian cultural and religious practice and toward nonwhite immigration. Change does not really come until the 1960s, and this, at least in part, can be attributed to the influence of the “Third Force” (non-English and non-French Canadians) on the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism resulting in an official Canadian government policy of multiculturalism. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srq042 |