Religious Studies in Ontario: A State-Of-The-Art Review

by William Closson James, Harold Remus, Daniel Fraikin

Most Ontario universities were established by Christian denominations; a Christian ethos was assumed and pervasive, and students were required to take courses designed to teach and inculcate religion. This insightful and comprehensive study demonstrates how, as Ontario society became secularized and pluralistic, so too did universities. Today, religion is again studies in university classrooms but as "religious studies," a relatively new field that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889202060
• ISBN13: 9780889202061
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 440 Pages