Title From seminary to university : an institutional history of the study of religion in Canada / Aaron W. Hughes

Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- Introduction -- Religion, Politics, Individuals -- Precursors to the Present Volume: The State-of-the-Art Reviews -- English versus French Canada? -- Definition of "the Study of Religion" -- Contents -- 1. Inauspicious Beginnings -- Historical Contexts -- Precursors to Royal Charters -- The Church of England and the Founding of Colonial Universities -- McGill -- Queen's -- McMaster -- Conclusions -- 2. The University of Toronto: A Case Study -- Establishing an Imperial College King's College (Toronto) Opens Its Doors -- Theological Colleges -- The Baldwin Act (1849) -- The Hincks Act (1853) -- The Federation Act (1887) -- Conclusions -- 3. Late Victorian Scholarship and the Rise of Higher Criticism -- The Recruitment of Faculty -- The Comparative Study of Religion -- Biblical and Oriental Studies: Maintaining the Equilibrium -- Higher Criticism: The Floodgates Open -- James F. McCurdy: Higher Criticism Enters the Mainstream -- Conclusions -- 4. Westward Bound -- Confederation -- The CPR -- Western Canada: Four Paradigms of Universities -- University of Saskatchewan University of Alberta -- University of Manitoba -- University of British Columbia -- Two Models of Religion and Politics on the Prairies: William Aberhart and Tommy Douglas -- Conclusions -- 5. Battle Lines -- Canadian Denominationalism -- Denominationalism and Its Limitations on the Study of Religion -- The United Church of Canada: A Brief History -- Oriental Studies and the University of Toronto -- Religious Knowledge: A Precursor to Religious Studies -- The Canadian Society of Biblical Studies (CSBS) -- Conclusions -- 6. Venues of Dissemination The Canadian Journal of Religious Thought (1924-32) -- Trends -- Historical Criticism -- Final Volume -- Conclusions -- 7. From Seminary to University -- Behind the Scenes -- Multiculturalism (1971) -- Scholarly Organizations Devoted to the Study of Religion -- Canadian Theological Society (CTS) -- Canadian Society of Church History (CSCH) -- Société canadienne de théologie (SCT) -- Canadian Society for the Study of Religion / Société canadienne pour l'étude de la religion (CSSR/SCÉR) -- Société québécoise pour l'étude de la religion (SQÉR) Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion / Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses (CCSR) -- Studies in Religion / Sciences religieuses (SR) -- Religious Studies vs. Theology -- George P. Grant (1918-1988) -- Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916-2000) -- Klaus K. Klostermaier (1933-) -- Conclusions -- 8. Florescence -- McGill (1949) -- McMaster (1960) -- UBC (1964) -- Université de Montréal (1969) and Université du Québec à Montréal (1972) -- University of Manitoba (1968) -- University of Toronto (1969) -- University of Alberta (1973) -- Dalhousie (1973) Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher Analysis Christianity McGill University of Toronto church and state history of religion religion and politics religious education religious studies in Canada seminary school sociology of knowledge theology Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 30, 2020) Subject Religion -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Canada -- History Theology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Canada -- History Theological seminaries -- Canada -- History Universities and colleges -- Curricula -- Canada -- History HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-) Religion -- Study and teaching (Higher) Theological seminaries Theology -- Study and teaching (Higher) Universities and colleges -- Curricula Canada Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781487531270 1487531273 9781487531263 1487531265

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