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ABSTRACT
In recent years religion has come to occupy an increasingly central place in both popular and scholarly debates concerning citizenship in Québec. In order to understand and begin to contend with the challenges that religion poses for citizenship both conceptually and practically, it is necessary to engage with discourses and practices of secularisation in their historical specificity. To facilitate this, this article proceeds on two fronts. First, it distinguishes between what it refers to as three moments of secularisation in the history of Québec, arguing that we are presently witnessing a distinct third moment of secularisation. Second, the article offers an alternative approach to questions of citizenship and religion that is not grounded in the notion of secularisation as a singular transhistorical process. Such a perspective provides an opening for rethinking the possible forms of mediation between citizenship and religion.
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Ian A. Morrison
Ian A. Morrison is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University in Cairo. His research and publications make interdisciplinary interventions into understandings of the relationship between religion, the nation, and citizenship by focussing on moments when dominant conceptions of identity and belonging are perceived to be under threat. In such moments the boundaries of belonging are both articulated and contested, providing important glimpses into the way in which identity and subjectivity are governed, transformed and reproduced. He is the author if Moments of Crisis: Religion and National Identity in Québec (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019).