Description
Book SynopsisWide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated, Moments of Crisis offers a groundbreaking explanation for why religion continues to be implicated in national identity crises in Québec.
Trade ReviewMoments of Crisis is a remarkable contribution to the possibility of abandoning the nation as the only imaginable form of community and belonging. Morrison thoroughly reminds us of the difficulty of realizing the fantasy of national wholeness with the existence of moments of crisis. As such, the book opens debates and rethinking of the challenges of forming new ways of belonging, community, and identity instead of presenting alternatives and solutions to the fragility of national identity.
-- Övgü Ülgen, University of Montreal * WILEY *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1 National Identity, Contingency, and Durability: Historicizing the Nation
2 The Rise of Clerico-Nationalism: Modernity, Assimilation, and Survivance
3 The Quiet Revolution and the State-Centred Nation: Immaturity, Abnormality, Autonomy, and Authenticity
4 The Construction of the Secular Québécois Citizen and the Problem of the Religious Subject
5 Migration and the Crisis of Identity: From the Hérouxville Code to the Charter of Québécois Values
Conclusion
References; Index
