Title
Moments of Crisis: Religion and National Identity in Québec
Files
Department
Sociology, Egyptology & Anthropology Department
Description
In the past two decades, Québec has been racked by a series of controversies in which the religiosity of migrants and other minorities has been represented as a threat to the province’s once staunchly Catholic, and now resolutely secular, identity. In Moments of Crisis, Ian Morrison locates these controversies and debates within a long history of crises within – and transformations of – Québécois, from the Conquest of New France in 1760 to contemporary times. He argues that national identity, like all identities, is unstable and prone to moments of crisis. It is in these moments that the nation is articulated and rearticulated, reinforced, and ultimately reproduced. Morrison also argues that, rather than seeking to overcome current controversies by reconsolidating national identity, Québécois should look on moments of crisis as opportunities to forge alternative conceptions of community, identity, and belonging.
ISBN
9780774861793, 9780774861786, 9780774861762, 9780774861779
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
City
Vancouver, British Columbia
Disciplines
History | History of Religion | Migration Studies | Politics and Social Change | Sociology of Religion
Recommended Citation
APA Citation
Morrison, I. A.
(2019).Moments of Crisis: Religion and National Identity in Québec. University of British Columbia Press.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_books/13
MLA Citation
Morrison, Ian A.
Moments of Crisis: Religion and National Identity in Québec. University of British Columbia Press, 2019.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_books/13
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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1101622701