Conservative Protestants and Religious Polarization in Canada
Reginald Bibby has recently argued that polarization is the best way to describe the religious reality in Canada. There is, in his view, a stable religiously active pole, a shrinking nominally religious middle, and a growing non-religious pole. Others have documented a similar trend in other Western...
| Subtitles: | Managing religious diversity in India, China and Canada |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2017]
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Studies in religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 46, Issue: 2, Pages: 187-208 |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | Reginald Bibby has recently argued that polarization is the best way to describe the religious reality in Canada. There is, in his view, a stable religiously active pole, a shrinking nominally religious middle, and a growing non-religious pole. Others have documented a similar trend in other Western countries. This paper examines evidence for religious polarization in Canada using data from Bibby’s Project Canada Surveys and other sources, with special attention paid to a prominent subset of the religiously committed: conservative Protestants. Evidence of polarization is weak for Canada as a whole. Instead, the data trends are consistent with religious decline. Even the conservative Protestants are not growing, nor showing evidence of increased conservativism. |
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| ISSN: | 2042-0587 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0008429817695660 |