For Canada's Sake: Public Religion, Centennial Celebrations, and the Re-making of Canada in the 1960s

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2005 - History - 308 pages
This study uses the Centennial Celebrations of 1967 and Expo 67 to explore how religion informed Canadian nation-building and national identities in the 1960s.
 

Contents

Public Religion Public Celebrations and the Construction
3
The Things That We Believe in in This Country Stand
14
An Inclusive State a Servant Church and the Waning
41
The 1967 Centennial Celebrations the Canadian
65
The National Interfaith Conference Has Been Lost
89
Should the Government of Canada Decide That
137
The Christian Pavilion the Sermons from Science
161
Conclusion
200
Bibliography
263
Index
303
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Gary Miedema is research associate at the Centre for Research and Religion in Canada, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto.

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