Beheading the Saint e-bog
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Through much of its existence, Quebec's neighbors called it the "e;priest-ridden province."e; Today, however, Quebec society is staunchly secular, with a modern welfare state built on lay provision of social services-a transformation rooted in the "e;Quiet Revolution"e; of the 1960s. In Beheading the Saint, Genevi...
E-bog
366,80 DKK
Forlag
University of Chicago Press
Udgivet
19 december 2016
Længde
224 sider
Genrer
1KBCQ
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780226391717
Through much of its existence, Quebec's neighbors called it the "e;priest-ridden province."e; Today, however, Quebec society is staunchly secular, with a modern welfare state built on lay provision of social services-a transformation rooted in the "e;Quiet Revolution"e; of the 1960s. In Beheading the Saint, Genevive Zubrzycki studies that transformation through a close investigation of the annual Feast of St. John the Baptist of June 24. The celebrations of that national holiday, she shows, provided a venue for a public contesting of the dominant ethno-Catholic conception of French Canadian identity and, via the violent rejection of Catholic symbols, the articulation of a new, secular Qubcois identity. From there, Zubrzycki extends her analysis to the present, looking at the role of Qubcois identity in recent debates over immigration, the place of religious symbols in the public sphere, and the politics of cultural heritage-issues that also offer insight on similar debates elsewhere in the world.