From Seminary to University
An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada
From Seminary to University
An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada
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Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9781487504977
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 06/05/2020
Width: 15.5 cm
Height: 23.1 cm
This book provides the first historical examination of the study of religion in Canada. While secular departments of religious studies would not emerge in Canada until the late 1960s, the teaching of religion under the guise of divinity, theology, the Bible, and moral philosophy has been omnipresent for much of the country’s history. The gradual transformation from the teaching of religious truths at denominational theological colleges to the non-denominational and secular study of religion at universities was a lengthy and complicated one.
From Seminary to University examines this transformation against a much broader backdrop. It is not simply the history of individual departments scattered across the nation. Instead, the story reveals the many non-academic forces that made those departments possible, such as the creation of the United Church of Canada, the adoption of multiculturalism, and the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In recounting this transformation, From Seminary to University illuminates an important part of Canadian history.
"The author clearly depicts the teaching of religion at Canada's universities, far into the twentieth century, as centred on Christian theology." -- Ira Robinson, Concordia University * Canadian Jewish Studies *
