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From seminary to university : an institutional history of the study of religion in Canada /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hughes, Aaron W., 1968- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Religion > Study and teaching (Higher) > Canada > History.
Theology > Study and teaching (Higher) > Canada > History.
Theological seminaries > Canada > History.
Universities and colleges > Curricula > Canada > History.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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)