The Numinous Cult(ur)e: Reconciling Québec’s religious heritage for a post-secular age.
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The aim of this research is to investigate the motivations and strategies employed by Québec state and its national institutions to preserve and promote its religious history, particularly in the present context of vociferous secular discourse. Building upon past works on the sociology of secularity and modernization, in addition to concepts of patrimonialization, museology, curation, and cultural studies, this paper advances thinking on Québec’s strategy of reconciling its dominant paradigm of religious rupture – one that allows for disavowal of and nostalgia for its religious past. On the other hand some attention is also paid to Québécois who do not share this religious past, and are as such, marked as outsiders by its promotion as a source of distinction and identity. To apply the thesis mentioned above to the actual process of national identity building, le Musée de l’Amérique francophone is discursively and spatially analyzed.
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Copyright © 2014 the author(s). Theses may be used for non-commercial research, educational, or related academic purposes only. Such uses include personal study, research, scholarship, and teaching. Theses may only be shared by linking to Carleton University Institutional Repository and no part may be used without proper attribution to the author. No part may be used for commercial purposes directly or indirectly via a for-profit platform; no adaptation or derivative works are permitted without consent from the copyright owner.
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