1. Charting the New Terrain: Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada

Bramadat, Paul; Seljak, David

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“…Religiously, Canada's confederacy essentially began with the bi-religious identity of British Protestantism and French Catholicism, eventually leading to a more pluralized version of accepted mainstream, mostly Christian, religious groups by the 1900s (Bramadat and Seljak 2008). Despite this religious pluralism, Christianity remained generally foundational to the religious life of Canada for most of its history (O'Toole 1996).…”

Section: Canada: Growing Immigration and Religious Diversitymentioning

confidence: 98%

“…However, it is difficult to know if this observed pattern of rising religious consciousness among immigrants to the United States holds true for other countries, including Canada. Whereas voluntary religious association has been a critically important component of American society since its inception as a nation (De Tocqueville 2003[1831, 1840; Weber 2002Weber [1906), this cannot be equally argued within Canada's religious history since religion and the state were highly intertwined at its founding (Bramadat and Seljak 2008). In the United States, one path of becoming American is to become religious (Chen 2008); however, in Canada, religion does not necessarily operate as the same vehicle of immigrant incorporation.…”

Section: Immigrant Religiosity: Change During Adaptationmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Immigrant Religiosity in Canada: Multiple Trajectories

Connor

2009

Int. Migration & Integration

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Although much research focuses on the economic and linguistic adaptation of immigrants to their new societies, it is rare to find research that studies the religious adaptation of immigrants at a national level. Using longitudinal data among immigrants to Canada in 2001, hypothesized trajectories of immigrant religiosity during initial settlement controlling for a number of individual and contextual level factors are explored. Religious group membership increases a few years after migration and then falls back to earlier levels within 4 years after migration. However, religious participation declines throughout the adaptation process, while the likelihood of religious volunteerism dramatically increases. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of potential explanations for these seemingly contradictory trajectories.Résumé Bien que les recherches sur l'adaptation économique et linguistique des immigrants à leur nouvelle société soient nombreuses, le thème de l'adaptation religieuse des immigrants au contexte national reste négligé. Puisant dans des données de l'Enquête longitudinale auprès des immigrants du Canada de 2001, ce travail s'intéresse aux trajectoires religieuses des immigrants au cours de la période d'installation, en contrôlant les facteurs individuels et contextuels. L'appartenance à un groupe religieux augmente dans les années suivant la migration avant de redescendre quatre ans plus tard au niveau initial. La participation religieuse décline tout au long du processus d'adaptation, alors que le volontariat religieux augmente fortement. L'article termine par une brève discussion des facteurs qui pourraient expliquer ces trajectoires à première vue contradictoires.

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Section: Canada: Growing Immigration and Religious Diversitymentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Immigrant Religiosity: Change During Adaptationmentioning

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Immigrant Religiosity in Canada: Multiple Trajectories

Connor

2009

Int. Migration & Integration

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“…The overall decline of participation in Christian religious activities seemed to reach a bottom at just under one in three Canadians in the late 1990s ( [7], Table 2, p. 835). 6 The accelerating decline among the younger generations, however, may make optimism on the overall figures over the next decades seem Panglossian. Even bleaker is the statistic that only 13% of the post-boomer generation attends religious services on a weekly basis ( [2], p. 31).…”

Section: Emerging Christians and The Decline Of Religion In Canadamentioning

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“…-De-Christianization,‖ moreover, is not accidental. It is a century long and intentional effort by political, business, and social policy elites to modernize Canadian society on rational, liberal, and capitalist principles ( [6], pp. [11][12][13][14][15].…”

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Emerging Churches in Post-Christian Canada

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Beach

2012

Religions

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Abstract:The traditional mainline and evangelical churches in Canada, as in most western countries, are either in decline or static. Taken as a measure of the future, the prospects for Christianity in Canada, and more broadly the West, are bleak. Post-Christian Canada, however, contains thriving alternative and innovative forms of church, often called ‗emerging' churches. They take many forms of expression, but share common theological convictions. Based on site research and personal interviews, this article describes the various types and contexts of these churches in Canada. It then highlights three of their central theological characteristics. First, rejecting the ‗culture wars' social involvement of Christendom churches, they embrace practices and initiatives that transform their local communities. Second, they embrace an incarnational and contextual understanding of Christian life and ministry. Eschewing mega-church franchise models, they endeavor to shape their ministry to the their local communities. Third, they adopt a comprehensive rather than compartmental spirituality.

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“…Secondly, the mainstream traditions are associated with high levels of education, including university degrees and even graduate studies, which impart a particular status and authority not necessarily associated with some of the more charismatic Christian denominations. Indeed, Canadian scholars note that without immigration from Africa, Asia and South America, numbers of these mainstream churches would already have closed their doors in North America and Europe (Bramadat and Seljak 2008a). 2 Questions about the role of religion in international development highlight the ongoing tensions between traditional and late modern societies, 3 the predicament of international collaboration and interdependence in a postcolonial global context, and the urgency of clarifying the ethical and practical contexts of development.…”

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Is religion a force for good? Reformulating the discourse on religion and international development

Rennick

2013

Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'étud

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1. Charting the New Terrain: Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada

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Immigrant Religiosity in Canada: Multiple Trajectories

Immigrant Religiosity in Canada: Multiple Trajectories

Emerging Churches in Post-Christian Canada

Is religion a force for good? Reformulating the discourse on religion and international development

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