Religious Plurality in Quebec
Edited by Deirdre Meintel
Presses of the University of Montreal

Resulting from field research on more than 230 religious or spiritual groups in Quebec spread across several regions, this collective work is a readable and concise synthesis of the current diversity of beliefs in the province. It explains why a large part of the religious is, socially and physically, invisible there, subject to a rather particular taboo; it shows how individuals move between multiple traditions and practices; it addresses the importance of healing, or "well‑being," within a certain approach to spirituality. This book also calls into question many received ideas: the quasi‑atheism of the majority compared with the great religiosity of immigrants; the opposition between religion and spirituality or that between religion and living together; the lack of dynamism of the Quebec Catholic Church, often perceived as moribund. This portrait of Quebec, as it presents itself in a secular society of advanced modernity, also reveals a unifying force that generates bonds that are always in action.

WITH TEXTS BY GUILLAUME BOUCHER, YANNICK BOUCHER, CLAUDE GÉLINAS, JOSIANE LE GALL, DEIRDRE MEINTEL, DANIELA MOISA, GÉRALDINE MOSSIÈRE AND SARAH WILKINS‑LAFLAMME

Deirdre Meintel is a professor of anthropology at the University of Montreal. She is the author of numerous works on migration, ethnicity, identities, religious diversity and on religion and modernity. Co‑founder of the journal Diversité urbaine, she directs the research group of the same name.

https://www.pum.umontreal.ca/catalogue/la_pluralite_religieuse_au_quebec#:~:text=Fruit%20d’une%20recherche%20de,croyances%20actuelle%20de%20la%20province