Pilgrims in a Foreign Land:Canadian Religious History and Immigration to the Prairies

3 credits

This course will begin by offering a broad context for religious history in Canada, assessing some major writers on the subject, and then proceed to focus on a specific aspect of this history - religion's role in immigration to the Canadian Prairies. The effect of religious leaders, institutions, and discourse will be considered throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, along with the methodological differences among academics within the realm of Canadian religious history.