The Mystical Geography of Quebec: Catholic Schisms and New Religious Movements

ISBN-13: 9783030330644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 274 str.

Susan J. Palmer; Martin Geoffroy; Paul L. Gareau

Spis treści

Part I: Introduction

 

Chapter 1: Quebec’s New Religions in Social and Historical Context

Susan J. Palmer

 

Chapter 2: New Religious Studies in Quebec since 1944: A Literature Review

Martin Geoffroy, Dominic Dagenais and Susan J. Palmer

 

Part II. Catholic Fundamentalisms and Schisms

 

Chapter 3: The Army of Mary: Quebec Nationalism and Catholic Heterodoxy

Paul L. Gareau

 

Chapter 4: The Pilgrims of Saint Michael: Preserving Quebec’s Traditional “Intégriste” Catholicism

Martin Geoffroy

 

Chapter 5: La Mission de l’Esprit Saint and Quebec’s Holy Spirit Incarnate

Susan J. Palmer and Dell J. Rose

 

Part III. Radical Sexuality

 

Chapter 6: Dr. Henry Morgentaler, “Arch-Abortionist” and Humanist: An Unbeliever’s Pro-Choice Campaign in Quebec and Canada

Steven Tomlins and J. Gordon Melton

 

Chapter 7: The Temple of Priapus: Contemporary Phallus Worshippers in Montreal

Donald L. Boisvert

 

Part IV. Controversial New Religions

 

Chapter 8: The Christian Essene Church: Freedom of Religion in the “Land of the Maple”

Marie-Ève Melanson

 

Chapter 9: The Apostles of Infinite Love and the “Hidden Children of St Jovite”

Susan J. Palmer

 

Chapter 10: The Solar Temple in Quebec and the Saint-Casimir “Transit”

Shannon Clusel and Susan J. Palmer

 

Chapter 11: Roch Theriault and the Holy Moses Mountain Family (“Ant Hill Kids”)

Andrew Ames

O autorze

Susan J. Palmer is an Affiliate Professor in Religious Studies at Concordia University.

 Martin Geoffroy is Professor of Sociology at Cégep Édouard-Montpetit.

 Paul L. Gareau is Assistant Professor of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.

Blurb

This study of new religious movements in Quebec focuses on nine groups—including the notoriously violent Solar Temple; the iconoclastic Temple of Priapus; and the various “Catholic” schisms, such as those led by a mystical pope; the Holy Spirit incarnate; or the reappearance of the Virgin Mary. Eleven contributing authors offer rich ethnographies and sociological insights on new spiritual groups that highlight the quintessential features of Quebec's new religions (“sectes” in the francophone media). The editors argue that Quebec provides a favorable “ecology” for alternative spirituality, and explore the influences behind this situation: the rapid decline of the Catholic Church after Vatican Il; the “Quiet Revolution,” a utopian faith in Science; the 1975 Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms; and an open immigration that welcomes diverse faiths. The themes of Quebec nationalism found in prophetic writings that fuel apocalyptic ferment are explored by the editors who find in these sectarian communities echoes of Quebec’s larger Sovereignty movement.