Le Couple Religion\Urbanite: Les Trajectoires Anglocanadienne Et Quebecoise a La Lumiere De L'historiographie Internationale (1) (Religion and Modernity ‪)‬

Resume: Une trajectoire historiographique bien etablie de la rencontre entre la religion et la modernite souligne le role des espaces urbains et des cultures urbaines comme facteurs cles du declin de la religion. Cet article analyse les trajectoires paralleles de l'histoire religieuse du Canada anglais et du Quebec pour interroger le lien entre urbanisation et secularisation. Prenant comme point de depart l'historiographie revisionniste internationale, ce texte pose comme hypothese centrale l'adaptation reussie des Eglises protestantes et catholique a la culture urbaine au Canada avant 1940. Il invite les historiens a considerer les Eglises comme des institutions socioculturelles dynamiques dans la structuration de la vie urbaine moderne, et offre une nouvelle chronologie des changements religieux et culturels qui relie l'experience historique du Quebec et du Canada anglais. Abstract: Older historical treatments of the encounter of religion and modernity have emphasized urban spaces and cultures as central causes of the decline of religion. This article explores the parallel trajectories of historical writing in religious history in English Canada and Quebec to reexamine the conventional equation of urbanization and secularization. Taking as its point of departure the revisionist international historiography which has questioned the equation between urbanization, industrialization, and secularization, this paper argues for the successful adaptation of the Protestant and Catholic churches to the Canadian urban environment, particularly in the period before 1940. It urges historians to consider the churches as dynamic social and cultural institutions in the framing of modern urban life, and posits a new chronology of religious and cultural change that links the historical experience of Quebec and English Canada.