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With this edited collection, Solange Lefebvre and Lori G. Beaman bring together a series of case studies of religious groups and practices from all across Canada that re-examine and question the classic distinction between the public and private spheres

After a literature review of space, urbanity, and religion, this article identifies some descriptive categories and analytical frameworks to theorize problems faced by religious minorities, especially Muslims, in obtaining space for their cemeteries and places of worship. A second section focuses on debates and an analysis related to these themes in the province of Quebec (Canada), especially in the City of Montreal, showing that while spatial dimensions rarely constitute an analytical category, this aspect is nevertheless a continual source of tension. The article illustrates how dysfunctional administrative processes have dominated the public scene in recent years. A case study shows how a few actors are exploiting provincial regulations in order to oppose public decisions that seek to accommodate the needs of Muslims, using a process for approving amendments to zoning bylaws by way of referendum. After a brief examination of the case related to a Muslim cemetery in a village near Quebec City, to shed light on the recent debates surrounding regulations, the article analyzes the decision-making process resulting in a failure to modify zoning regulations in order to welcome new places of worship in a borough of Montreal. While analyzing administrative and legal aspects, the article also exposes the complexity of the social and spatial dynamics at stake. Our conclusion is that any successful public policy on diversity must employ multilayered strategies, particularly to support space regulations with foundational intercultural and interreligious initiatives. It also brings attention to the perverse effect of some local participatory procedures, whereby a few actors maneuver to mobilize citizens, in order to resist the religious pluralization of space.

Les âges et générations n'ont pas la même audience que les classes sociales ou les genres, lorsqu'il s'agit de réfléchir sur les rapports, les contributions des uns et des autres, les similitudes et les différences, les solidarités et les injustices. Au fil des ans, l'auteur a mis à l'épreuve plusieurs questions sur le sujet, qui furent grandement enrichies par la confrontation à des perspectives selon les âges. Cet article en donne quelques exemples. Il aborde des notions fondamentales dans les deux premières parties en se penchant sur la difficile distinction entre effets d'âge, de génération ou de période et en traitant, dans un deuxième temps, des apports différenciés selon les âges. Des voies de recherche et d'intervention centrales sont également examinées : d'abord, la création d'un groupe de réflexion intergénérationnel, à la fin des années 1990, qui a permis d'attirer l'attention sur des problèmes de déséquilibre entre les âges, jusque-là inaperçus ou insoupçonnés. Tout en évoquant la création de ce groupe, l'auteur donne l'exemple du débat sur les « clauses orphelins » au travail, extrêmement révélateur ; ensuite, la résistance des milieux de la recherche que rencontre toute discussion sur les iniquités entre les âges ; et enfin, la question de la transmission des savoirs entre groupes d'âge différents au travail, trop peu exploitée jusqu'à présent. L'étude souligne pour finir l'importance du rôle des générations futures, surtout en ce qui a trait à la gestion des ressources de la planète, et qui rappelle la profondeur temporelle des relations intergénérationnelles.

Comment se pose la question de la responsabilité en lien avec l'enjeu intergénérationnel dans sa dimension socio-politique ? Le rapport aux autres générations paraît présentement impliquer à la fois une inquiétude et une responsabilité, en particulier au plan environnemental et de l'emploi. Quelques philosophes d'inspiration juive (Levinas, Jonas) aident à conjuguer inquiétude et responsabilité. Celles-ci s'inscrivent dans l'émergence d'une nouvelle conscience temporelle depuis le début de la crise environnementale. Le concept de responsabilité intergénérationnelle concerne surtout ce champ de réflexion et il affleure aussi dans les questions concernant l'équité intergénérationnelle depuis le début des années 1980, par exemple autour de l'emploi et de la dette publique. Certains exemples montrent que des clivages sociaux se créent en effet aussi entre générations, et non pas seulement entre les classes sociales et entre les sexes.

Due to growing negative perceptions about relations between historically entrenched, dominant populations and various minority groups, issues relating to the need to better manage cultural and religious diversity have been intensifying in many countries. These negative perceptions have recently led to a significant increase in popular support for right and extreme right nationalist discourses, and have created so much public tension that national governments have had no choice but to respond. In the last two decades, in several Western contexts in particular, the issues raised by such combined challenges have culminated in the creation of government-initiated or private national commissions. This book presents the results of a multidisciplinary analysis, from a broader framework that includes the national public commissions which have addressed the challenges of managing cultural and religious diversity in Belgium, Britain, Canada (Quebec), France, Morocco and Norway (including also other cases of public management in Australia and Singapore). It includes in-depth studies of the issues and controversies examined by each of the commissions, such as the ways they perceived the issues, their results and impact, the key political players involved, the media debates and reception surrounding each commission, the communication strategies and difficulties their leaders encountered, as well as the legal aspects each commission has raised. The reports represent a rich body of work charting the fundamental questions nations face about their nature, history and future while the impact on peoples' lives tells us much about different approaches to the issues of cultural identity between countries.

Religious minorities are increasingly present in the public sphere. Often pointed out as a problem, we argue here that the establishment of these minorities in Western societies is happening through struggles for recognition. Communities or individuals belonging to different minorities are seeking recognition from the society in which they are living. In Section 1, we present, briefly, our perspective, which differs from the analyses generally presented in the sociology of religion in that it adopts a bottom-up perspective. In Section 2, we present and discuss articles dealing with case studies in the cities of Barcelona, Geneva, and Montreal. In Section 3, we discuss two articles that present a process of individualization of claims for recognition. Finally, we present an article that discusses the case of an unrecognized minority in the Turkish school system.

Front Matter -- -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction to The Changing Faces of Catholicism /Solange Lefebvre and Alfonso Pérez-Agote -- Catholicism in Both Catholic and Pluralistic Societies -- Religion and National Identity in Catholic Societies: The Quarrel between Religion and Culture /Jean-François Laniel -- Popular Religiosity and Value Changes in Mexico City Youth /Jesús Antonio Serrano Sánchez , Ramiro Gómez-Arzápalo and Alejandro Gabriel Emiliano Flores -- From a Place of Popular Religiosity to a Transnational Space of Multiple Meanings and Religious Interactions /Helena Vilaça -- Cultural Catholics in the United States /Tricia C. Bruce -- Strategies within Specific Countries to Counteract the Secularization Crisis -- Occupying the Margins of Society: Operationalizing Minority Identity Politics among Canadian Youth within the Catholic New Evangelization /Paul L. Gareau -- Catholic Reconquest: The Case of the Sainte Blandine Megachurch in Lyon /Valérie Aubourg -- The Catholic Charismatic Renewal (ccr) in the Americas /Andrea Althoff and Jakob Egeris Thorsen -- Religious Practices, Beliefs and Commitments on the Margins of the Catholic Church in Belgium /Karel Dobbelaere and Liliane Voyé -- Strategies and General Attitudes of the Catholic Church, and of the Vatican Centre in Particular, in Relation to Problems of the Global Era -- Catholicism and Eastern Religions: Spiritual Innovators and Interreligious Dialogue (de Mello and Merton) /Andrew P. Lynch -- Religion in a Globalized Culture: Institutional Innovation and Continuity of Catholicism—The Case of World Youth Day /Sławomir Mandes and Wojciech Sadłoń -- The Joy of Dialogue in an Intercultural World: Educational Implications from Evangelii Gaudium /Graham P. McDonough -- Changes in Specific Catholic Institutions -- Navigating the Fault Lines of Catholic Institutional Identity /Kevin Ahern -- The Economy of Stability in Catholic Monasteries in the Czech Republic and Austria /Barbora Spalová and Isabelle Jonveaux.

With this edited collection, Solange Lefebvre and Lori G. Beaman bring together a series of case studies of religious groups and practices from all across Canada that re-examine and question the classic distinction between the public and private spheres.