Understanding the consecrated life in Canada
Subtitle: critical essays on contemporary trends
By: Jason Zuidema, editor
Series: Editions SR = Éditions SR -- 38; Editions SR -- v. 38
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9781771121378
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Religious life and customs; Vie religieuse
Other titles: Project Muse UPCC books.
Description: "In four parts, this book presents essays in both English and French from the leading scholars on religious life in Canada that seek to address the state of religious communities dedicated to religious virtuosity normally characterized by formal promises of chastity, poverty, and obedience. The essays examine a broad range of topics related to the general state of consecrated (or "religious" or "monastic") life in contemporary Canadian Christian and Buddhist traditions."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued also in electronic format.

Text in English and French.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Living the consecrated life in Canada  -- Jason Zuidema; title: Le nombre de religieux au Québec: pourquoi est-il monté aussi haut avant 1960 et descendu aussi bas après 1965?  -- Guy Laperrière; title: Catholic consecrated life in Canada: a statistical overview  -- Kathryn Rose Sawyer with Jason Zuidema; title: Le monachisme dans l'église et la société: une perspective de sociologie historique  -- Paul-André Turcotte; title: La vie religieuse au Québec: une place à trouver et une identité à repenser  -- Gilles Routhier; title: The local bishop in the renewal of religious life after Vatican II: G. Emmett Carter and the Precious Blood Sisters in the Diocese of London, Ontario  -- Michael Attridge; title: The Canadian province of the Religieuses de Notre Dame des Missions: the horizon reference and reception of Vatican II: moving toward a new constellation of meanings -- Rosa Bruno-Jofré; title: Experiencing Vatican II: oral histories of women religious recalling change, challenges, and creative solutions  -- Elizabeth Smyth and Patricia Kmeic; title: Avoiding and exaggerating renewal: maritime Catholic newspapers' reporting on women religious, 1962-1975  -- Heidi MacDonald and Emily Burton; title: "All things pass but love remains": the closing decades of a religious community  -- Elizabeth W. McGahan; title: La Conférence Religieuse Canadienne (CRC): 60 ans au service des communautés religieuses  -- Yvon Pomerleau; title: "Un projet tissé d'espérance et ouvert à la nouveauté": la vie consacrée contemporaine à travers un périodique catholique francophone, la revue En son nom (2003-2012)  -- Dominique Laperle; title: Entre tradition et innovation: nouveaux instituts, communautés nouvelles et nouvelles formes de vie consacrée au Canada  -- Rich van Lier; title: Les instituts séculiers: nouveaux espoirs et nouveaux défis -- Gabrielle Lachance; title: New monasticism among evangelical Protestants  -- Martha Elias Downey; title: Canadian Catholic religious orders and the social economy movement in Canada  -- Robert McKeon; title: "A prey to history": religious life in Canada, 1959-1988  -- Darren J. Dias; title: Standing on holy ground: Benedict, Francis, and monastic environmentalism  -- Cory Andrew Labrecque; title: Les causes de canonisation, porteuses de mémoire des communautés  -- Claude Auger; title: Buddhist and other monasticisms in Canada  -- Victor Sōgen Hori; title: The Thai Buddhist Forest tradition in Ontario  -- Julia Stenzel; title: The Avatamsaka Sagely Monastery ... and new perspectives on globalized Buddhism in Canad  -- Lina Verchery; title: Buddhist meditation and the consecrated life: the Sītavana Birken Forest Monastery  -- Yunchang Liu; title: Cultivating the life of divinity: the consecrated lifestyle of the Sri Chinmoy Centres of Canada -- Michelle Rebidoux; title: Renouncing the world to get engaged? Gampo Abbey and the role of monasticism in a lay Buddhist movement  -- Barbra Clayton; title: Changing perceptions of monasticism within Ontario Khmer and Lao Buddhist communities -- Janet McLellan and Marybeth White.