Is Quebec Still a Catholically Distinct Society within Canada? An Examination of Catholic Affiliation and Mass Attendance

Bibliographic Data

ID3944653
AuthorsJean-François Nault (University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Jean‐françois Nault (University of Toronto, corresponding author), É-Martin Meunier (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
Year2017
Volume46
Issue2
Pages230-248
Publication date2017-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-4298 • E-ISSN: 2042-0587
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0008429817696298
OpenAlexW2612684485
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited11

Since the Quiet Revolution, Quebec has significantly transformed its relationship to Catholicism. Some commentators have even gone as far as discussing an increasingly important secularization within the province. Yet, an examination of the main indicators of religiosity in Quebec provides evidence for the permanence of a certain cultural Catholicism. However, this cultural Catholicism is tending to gradually fade over time, giving place to the reconfiguration of the regime of religiosity. Meanwhile, in the rest of Canada, Catholicism tends to grow, primarily due to the immigrant population in recent years. In this general context, is Quebec still a "Catholically distinct" society? To answer this question, the authors use a series of logistic models to examine the main determinants of Catholic affiliation and Mass attendance. Age, place of birth and mother tongue emerge as principal determinants of religious affiliation and practice. Based on the findings from these models, the authors show that Quebec remains a Catholically distinct society in comparison with other Canadian regions. However, the gap between this province and the rest of Canada seems to have been increasingly fading, at least over the last thirty years

Attendance · Church attendance · Context (archaeology · Ethnology · Immigration · Political science · Population · Religiosity · Secularization · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Tourism and Spaces

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