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

Includes bibliographies and index.

"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."--

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)

COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:

https://lib.ciu.edu/copyright-request-form