Canadian Ecumenical Activity and the Rise of "Nones": Is There Any Relationship?
Since the nineteenth century, Christians in Canada have been committed to cooperating with one another on building up the country's social well-being. With the emergence of the modern ecumenical movement in the twentieth century, this work was undertaken first by the Canadian Council of Churche...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2020
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Journal of ecumenical studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 211-228 |
| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America KDJ Ecumenism |
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Christians
B Canada B Canadian Council of Churches B Interdenominational cooperation B Nones B Secularization B Canada's Inter-Church Coalition B sociopolitical norms B Ecumenical Movement B Quality of life |
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| Summary: | Since the nineteenth century, Christians in Canada have been committed to cooperating with one another on building up the country's social well-being. With the emergence of the modern ecumenical movement in the twentieth century, this work was undertaken first by the Canadian Council of Churches and then in the 1970's and 1980's by Canada's Inter-Church Coalitions, which worked actively on sociopolitical issues. At the same time, those decades saw the beginning of Canada's greatest period of secularization, wherein the percentage of those claiming "no religious affiliation" rose from 4% in 1971 to 24% in 2011. This essay studies whether there is any correlation between ecumenical sociopolitical activity and the rise in "nones." |
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| ISSN: | 2162-3937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of ecumenical studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/ecu.2020.0025 |