·        BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR RELIGION AND POLITICS IN CANADA

 

·        Publications by various groups and think tanks can be found by linking to my Religion and Politics Resources webpage:  http://home.uleth.ca/~john.vonheyking/Religion&Politics.htm

 

·        Also see the bibliography listed here:  http://www.icscanada.edu/faculty/jchaplin/syl_f05f.shtml

 

LIBERALISM AND THE QUESTION OF SECULARISM

·        Ajzenstat, Janet.  The Political Thought of Lord Durham, (Kingston and Montreal:  McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988), 35-41.

·        Beckett Fund's Conference on Religious Liberty and the Ideology of the State:  http://www.becketfund.org/other/Prague2000/PraguePapers.html (especially essays by Mary Ann Glendon and Jean Bethke Elshtain).

·        Bethke Elshtain, Jean. “The Bright Line: Religion and Liberalism,” New Criterion, March 1999

·        Bibby, Reginald. Unknown Gods: The Ongoing Story of Religion in Canada, (Toronto: Stoddart, 1993

·        Douglass, R. Bruce and Joshua Mitchell (eds.). A Nation Under God? Essays on the Fate of Religion in American Public Life.  Lanham, MD:  Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.

·        Farrow, Douglas. “Three Meanings of Secular,” First Things, 133, May 2003, (http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0305/opinion/farrow.html)

·        Gillespie, Michael Allen. “The Theological Origins of Modernity,” Critical Review.  13(1999), nos. 1-2: 1-30.

·        Knopff, Rainer.  Quebec’s ‘Holy War’ as ‘Regime’ Politics: Reflections on the Guibord Case,” Canadian Journal of Political Science, 1979 12(2): 315-31.

·        _____. “The Triumph of Liberalism in Canada: Laurier on Representation and Party Government,” in Canada’s Origins: Liberal, Tory, or Republican?, Janet Ajzenstat and Peter J. Smith, eds., (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1995), 159-80.

·        Lyon, David and Marguerite van Die. Rethinking Church, State, and Modernity: Canada Between Europe and America.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.


·        Mansfield, Harvey, Jr. “The Religious Issue and the Origin of Modern Constitutionalism,” in America’s Constitutional Soul, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), 101-114. 

·        Milbank, John. Theology and Social Theory, (Blackwell, 1994). 

·        Moir, John S. Church and State in Canada: 1627-1867: Basic Documents, (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1967)

·        Neuhaus, Richard John. The Naked Public Square.  Grand Rapids, MI:  Eerdmans.

·        Pangle, Thomas L. “The Accommodation of Religion: A Tocquevillian Perspective,” in Marian C. McKenna, ed., The Canadian and American Constitutions in Comparative Perspective, (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1993), 3-24.

·        Reynolds, Noel B. and W. Cole Durham, Jr. (eds.).  Religious Liberty in Western Thought.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996.  

·        Rosenblum, Nancy L. Obligations of Citizens and Demands of Faith: Religious Accommodation in Pluralist Democracies.  Princeton, 2000.              .

·        Strong, Tracy, B. “Setting One's Heart on Honesty: The Tensions of Liberalism and Religion,” Social Research, Winter 1999 66(4) p.1143.

·        Thiessen, Elmer John. In Defence of Religious Schools and Colleges.  Montreal-Kingston:  McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001.

·        VanderVennen, Robert E. (ed.). Church and Canadian Culture.  Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1991).

·        Vandezande, Gerald.  Christians in the Crisis: Toward Responsible Citizenship.  Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1984.

·        Voegelin, Eric, The New Science of Politics, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952).

·        _____. Science, Politics, and Gnosticism, (Washington, DC: Regnery, 1968).

·        Walsh, David J.  The Growth of the Liberal Soul.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994. 

·        _____.  The Third Millennium:  Reflections on Faith and Reason in the Twenty-First Century.  Washington, DC:  Georgetown University Press, 2000. 

·        Weithman, Paul J. (ed.).  Religion and Contemporary Liberalism.  Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997.

·        Witte, John Jr. and Johan D. van der Vyver.  Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Religious Perspectives.  Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1996.

 

LAW

 

·        *Special Edition on Religion, Morality, and Law.  University of British Columbia Law Review.  Vol. 33 (2000).  Includes articles on constitutional law and liberal political theory.

·        These websites provide useful commentary on court cases:

o                                           http://www.religiousfreedom.ca/

o                                           http://www.carters.ca/

o                                           http://www.culturalrenewal.ca/lexview.htm

o                                           http://www.churchlaw.ca/

o                                           http://www.charitylaw.ca/

 

·        Berman, Harold. Faith and Order: The Reconciliation of Law and Religion.  Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1993.

·        Brown, David. “Freedom From or Freedom For?: Religion as a Case Study in Defining the Content of Charter Rights,” in UBC Law Review, Special Issue, 2000

·        _____. “Neutrality or Privilege? A Comment on Religious Freedom,” (2005), 29 S.C.L.R. (2d) 221.

·        _____. “Reconciling Equality and Other Rights:  Paradigm Lost?,” National Journal of Constitutional Law, 15(1) (2004): 1-33.

·        Cote, Pauline. “From Status Politics to Technocratic Pluralism: Toleration of Religious Minorities in Canada,” Social Justice Research, 12(4) 1999: 253-282.

·        DeCoste, Frederick. “Courting Leviathan:  Limited Government and Social Freedom in Reference re Same-Sex Marriage,” Alberta Law Review 42:4, 2005 (http://www.marriageinstitute.ca/pages/articles.htm#ted)

·        Feldman, Stephen M. (ed.), Law and Religion: A Critical Anthology.  New York University Press, 2000.

·        Heyking, John von.  “The Harmonization of Heaven and Earth?: Religion, Politics, and Law in Canada,” University of British Columbia Law Review, Vol. 33 (2000) Special Edition: 663-97.  (On reserve, in the Special Edition listed above).


·        Horwitz, Paul.  “The Sources and Limits of Freedom of Religion in a Liberal Democracy: Section 2(a) and Beyond,” University of Toronto Faculty Law Review (Winter 1990) 54(1): 1-64.

·        Hunter, Ian. Three Faces of Law, (Mississauga: Work Research Foundation)

·        Ishiyama Smithey, Shannon. “Religious Freedom and Equality Concerns Under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,” Canadian Journal of Political Science, 34(1) March 2001: 85-108.

·        Rainer Knopff, “Civility, Toleration, and Non-Judgmentalism: The Case of Trinity Western University,” forthcoming in Raymond Bazowski, ed, The Charter at Twenty, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005.

·         

·        Lexview.  Individual case comments on various court decisions involving religion and politics (http://www.culturalrenewal.ca/lexview.htm).

·        Macklem, Timothy.  “Faith as a Secular Value,” McGill Law Journal.  (2000) 45(1): 3-63.

·        Menendez, Albert.  Church and State in Canada, (Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1996).

·        Moon, Richard. “Liberty, Neutrality, and Inclusion:  Religious Freedom Under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,” Brandeis Law Journal, 41(3) 2003: 563-73.

·        _____. “Religious Commitment and Identity:  Syndicat Northcrest v. Amselem,” Supreme Court Law Review.  (2005), 29 (2d): 201-220.

·        _____. “Sexual Orientation Equality and Religious Freedom in the Public Schools:  A Comment on Trinity Western University v. B.C. College of Teachers and Chamberlain v. Surrey School Board District 36,” Review of Constitutional Studies, 8(2) 2003: 228-84.

·        Shilton, Elizabeth J. “Religion and Public Education in Canada After the Charter,” in Religious Conscience, the State, and the Law, eds., John McLaren and Harold Coward, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999), 206-23.

·        White, Linda A. “Liberalism, Group Rights and the Boundaries of Toleration: The Case of Minority Religious Schools in Ontario,” Canadian Journal of Political Science, 36(5) December 2003, pp 975-1003

·        Witte, John Jr. and Johan D. van der Vyver.  Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives.  Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1996.

 

GROUPS

·        “The Year of Religion in Politics,” contributions by Bob Chodos, Gregory Baum, and Claude Ryan, in Inroads, 10 (2001): 67-99.

·        Baum, Gregory. Catholics and Canadian Socialism: Political Thought in the Thirties and Forties.  Toronto: Lorimer, 1980.

·        Blaikie, Bill. “Debate Over Day's Faith Has Been Misguided,” Pundit Magazine  pp. 1-3

·        Bibby, Reginald W. 1987. Fragmented Gods: The Poverty and Potential of Religion in Canada. Toronto: Stoddart.

·        Burkinshaw, Robert. 1995. Pilgrims in Lotus Land:  Conservative Protestantism in British Columbia, 1917-1981. Montreal & Kingston: McGill Queen's University Press

·        Clarke, S.D. "The Religious Sect in Canadian Politics." In The Developing Canadian Community, compiled by S. D. Clark. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962.

·        Cooper, Barry.  “Quebec Nationalism and Canadian Politics in Light of Voegelin’s Political Religions,” in Politics, Order, and History:  Essays on the Work of Eric Voegelin.  Eds. Glenn Hughes et al.  Sheffield:  Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.

·        Day, Stockwell. “Civitas Conference Speech.”  Can also be found at: (http://www.canadianalliance.ca/hotissues/viewby/index.cfm?readarticle’1&dirlevel’2&lang’E&DoID’202)

·        _____. “My Faith in Public Life,” Globe and Mail, (National Edition), July 31, 2000, A11.

·        Elton, David. “Political Behavior of Mormons in Canada,” in The Mormon Presence in Canada, pp. 260-78, ed., Brigham Young Card et al., (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1990).

·        Flanagan, Tom. Louis David Riel : Prophet of the New World, (Toronto : University of Toronto, 1996).

·        _____. “Social Credit in Alberta: A Canadian Cargo Cult?” Archives de Sociologie des Religions, 34 (1972): 39-48 (1 class)

·        _____ and Martha Lee, “From Social Credit to Social Conservatism: The Evolution of an Ideology,” Prairie Forum 16 (1991): 205-23.

·        Hiemstra, John.  “Government Relations With Faith-Based Non-Profit Social Agencies in Alberta,” Journal of Church and State, January 2002: 19-44.

·        Hiller, Harry. "Alberta and the Bible Belt Stereotype." In Religion in Canadian Society, edited by S. Crysdale and L. Wheatcroft. Toronto: Macmillan, 1976.

·        Hoover, Dennis R. 1997. "The Christian Right Under Old Glory and the Maple Leaf." In Sojourners in the Wilderness: The Christian Right in Comparative Perspective, edited by Corwin E. Smidt and James M. Penning. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.                    

·        _____. 2000. "A Religious Right Arrives in Canada." Religion in the News

3 (2): 12, 15.

·        _____. "Evangelicalism Meets the Continental Divide: Moral and Economic Conservatism in the United States and Canada," (with Kenneth D. Wald, Michael D. Martinez, and Samuel H. Reimer), Political Research Quarterly, Volume 55, Number 2 (June 2002): 351-374.

·        _____. "Ecumenism of the Trenches?: The Politics of Evangelical-Catholic Alliances in Canada and the United States," paper for the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 26 May, 2002, University of Toronto.

·        Hoy, Claire. Stockwell Day: His Life and Politics.  Toronto: Stoddart, 2000.  Chapter on religion

·        Jones, Preston. “Quebec Indépendentisme and the Life of Faith,” Journal of Church and State.  43(2) Spring 2001: 251-66.

·        Lyon, David. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.

·        Mackey, Lloyd.  Like Father, like Son : Ernest Manning and Preston Manning

·        Manning, Preston. “The Reconciliation of Parties in Conflict: The Theory and Application of a Model of Last Resort,” in With Heart, Mind, and Strength: The Best of Crux, 1979-1989, ed., Donald M. Lewis, (Langley, BC: CREDO Publishing, 1990), 237-51.

·        _____.  Chapter on religion in his New Canada


·                    Marleau, Robert and Camille Montpetit, House of Commons Procedure and Practice,           (Toronto:  Chenelière/McGraw-Hill, 2000).  Explains rules governing prayers (pp. 357-           61) and petitions (pp. 927-31)

·                    Mendelsohn, Matthew and Richard Nadeau, “The Religious Cleavage and the Media in             Canada,” Canadian Journal of Political Science, 30(1) March 1997: 129-46.

·                    Mills, Allen George.  Fool for Christ : the political thought of J. S. Woodsworth,      (Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, c1991).  

·                    Nevitte, Neil. The Decline of Deference, (Peterborough: Broadview, 1996), ch. 7. (On            religious attitudes of Canadians).


·                    Rawlyk, George A. "Politics, Religion, and the Canadian Experience." In
·        Religion and American Politics, edited by Mark A. Noll. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
·        _____. "Religion in Canada: A Historical Overview." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 538 (March 1995):131-142.  
·        _____. Is Jesus Your Personal Saviour?: In Search of Canadian Evangelicalism in the 1990s. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996.
·        Stackhouse, John, "Bearing Witness: Christian Groups Engage Canadian Politics Since the 1960s." In Rethinking Church, State and Modernity: Canada between Europe and America, edited by Marguerite Van Die and

·        Williams, John R. (ed.).  Canadian Churches & Social Justice, (Toronto : Anglican Book Centre and J. Lorimer, 1984).

 

VOTING BEHAVIOR

 
·        Guth, James L. and Cleveland R. Fraser. 2001. "Religion and Partisanship in Canada." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 40 (1): 51-64.
·        Irvine, William. 1974. "Explaining the Religious Basis of the Canadian Partisan Identity: Success on the Third Try." Canadian Journal of Political Science 7: 560-563.
·        _____ and H. Gold. 1980. "Do Frozen Cleavages Ever Go Stale? The Bases of the Canadian and Australian Party Systems." British Journal of Political Science 10: 187-218.
·        _____. 1985. "Comment on 'The Reproduction of the Religious Cleavage in Canadian Election.'" Canadian Journal of Political Science 18: 115-117.
·        Johnston, Richard. 1985. "The Reproduction of the Religious Cleavage in Canadian Elections." Canadian Journal of Political Science 18: 99-113.
·        Lijphart, Arend. 1979. "Religious vs. Linguistic vs. Class Voting: The 'Crucial' Experiment of Comparing Belgium, Canada, South Africa, and Switzerland." American Political Science Review 73: 442-458.
·        Meisel, John. 1975. "Bizarre Aspects of a Vanishing Act: The Religious Cleavage and Voting in Canada." In Working Papers on Canadian Politics. 2nd. ed. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.

·        O’Neill, Brenda. “A Simple Difference of Opinion? Religious Beliefs and Gender Gaps in Public Opinion in Canada,” Canadian Journal of Political Science, 34(2) June 2001: 275-98.

·        Smidt, Corwin. “Religion and Civic Engagement,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, v. 565, Sept. 1999: 176-92.

·        Uslaner, Eric M. “Religion and Civic Engagement in Canada and the United States,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 41:2 (2002): 239-54

·        Wald, Kenneth D., "Social Change and Political Response: The Silent Religious Cleavage in North America." In Politics and Religion in the Modern World, edited by George Moyser. London: Routledge, 1991.

 

CIVIL RELIGION AND POLITICAL CULTURE

 

·        Blumstock, Robert. “Canadian Civil Religion,” The Sociology of Religion: A Canadian Focus, ed., W. E. Hewitt, (Toronto:  Butterworths, 1993): 173-94.

·        Cristi, Marcela. From Civil to Political Religion: The Intersection of Culture, Religion, and Politics. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001.
·        de Souza, Raymond J. “ Thinly Disguised Totalitarianism,” First Things, 142 (April 2004): 9-12 (http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0404/opinion/desouza.html)

·        Gottfried, Paul. Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Towards a Secular Theocracy.  Columbia, MO:  University of Missouri Press, 2004.

·        Sabetti, Filippo. "Covenant Language in Canada: Continuity and Change in Political Discourse." pp. 259-284. In Daniel J. Elazar and John Kincaid, eds., The Convenant Tradition: From Federal Theology to Modern Federalism. Lanham, MD: Lexington books, 2000.

·        Stahl, William (1981).  "Symbols of Canada: Civil Religion, Nationality, and the Search for Meaning."  Ph.D. Dissertation.  Graduate Theological Union.  Berkeley, CA.

·        Treatments of Civil Religion in History of Political Thought:

    • Eric Voegelin, New Science of Politics, ch. 3,
    • Augustine, City of God, 6.6
    • Hobbes, De Cive, 15.15; Leviathan, 31, 32, 42
    • Giambattista Vico, New Science, paras. 334, 342, 360, 364, 366, 385, 390, 990
    • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract, IV.8
    • Spinoza, Tractatus, chs. 3, 6.40, 8.46
    • Michael Oakeshott, “Introduction” Hobbes’s Leviathan, in Political Rationalism and Other Essays