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Churches, Blackness, and Contested MulticulturalismHistorical and Contemporary Perspectives on Multiculturalisms and Black Christianities in Canada

Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on... [Questions of religious identity, religious community, and nationalism have involved people of African descent in what is now Canada either in their explicit omission or inclusion from the earliest colonial times to the present day. Rather than situated somewhere betwixt and between E nglish and A merican cultural and linguistic experiences, Isuggest that the more interesting story is to locate black Canadian Christian experience as a part of the black Atlantic world and British Empire building in North America. This chapter is an attempt to tell that story beginning with an overview of black C hristian experiences in C anada from the F rench colonial era of the early seventeenth century to the contemporary twenty-first century. I contend that issues of pluralism have been important in the emergence of various national schemas from the era of F rench and B ritish colonization to the contemporary period of multiculturalism. P luralism within the context of nationhood is not a post W orld W ar II issue in C anada but rather has longer roots stretching back to the earliest colonial era of first contact between E uropeans and native peoples and A fricans.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Churches, Blackness, and Contested MulticulturalismHistorical and Contemporary Perspectives on Multiculturalisms and Black Christianities in Canada

Part of the Black Religion / Womanist Thought / Social Justice Book Series
Editors: Smith, R. Drew; Ackah, William; Reddie, Anthony G.
Duncan, Carol B.
Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism — Nov 5, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
ISBN
978-1-349-48934-3
Pages
31 –46
DOI
10.1057/9781137386380_3
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Abstract

[Questions of religious identity, religious community, and nationalism have involved people of African descent in what is now Canada either in their explicit omission or inclusion from the earliest colonial times to the present day. Rather than situated somewhere betwixt and between E nglish and A merican cultural and linguistic experiences, Isuggest that the more interesting story is to locate black Canadian Christian experience as a part of the black Atlantic world and British Empire building in North America. This chapter is an attempt to tell that story beginning with an overview of black C hristian experiences in C anada from the F rench colonial era of the early seventeenth century to the contemporary twenty-first century. I contend that issues of pluralism have been important in the emergence of various national schemas from the era of F rench and B ritish colonization to the contemporary period of multiculturalism. P luralism within the context of nationhood is not a post W orld W ar II issue in C anada but rather has longer roots stretching back to the earliest colonial era of first contact between E uropeans and native peoples and A fricans.]

Published: Nov 5, 2015

Keywords: Nova Scotia; Black Community; Black People; African Descent; Domestic Service

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