McGill University School of Religious Studies RELG 420 CANADIAN CHURCH HISTORY A Reading Course survey of major developments in the history of the Christian Church in the Dominion of Canada from the arrival of the earliest missionaries up to the present day. Place: Birks Building, Room 105 Time: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 4:00—5:30 pm Professor: Torrance Kirby Office Hours: Birks 206, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00—11:00 am Email: [email protected] COURSE SYLLABUS—FALL TERM 2020 Date Reading 3 September INTRODUCTION I. THE CHURCH IN NEW FRANCE 8 September EARLY MISSIONS Paul Le Jeune, SJ, Jesuit Relations (1634) 10 September SULPICIAN SPIRITUALITY OF THE FRENCH SCHOOL Pierre Cardinal de Bérulle, A Letter on the Priesthood (1644) Jean-Jacques Olier, SS, The Christian Day (1655) 15 September AN URSULINE EPIC Marie-Emmanuel Chabot, The Life of Marie de l’Incarnation (1599-1672) “Madwoman of God”, National Film Board 17 September A MOHAWK SAINT Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680), Allan Greer, “The Mohawk who converted a Jesuit” II. AFTER THE CONQUEST 22 September PROVINCE OF QUEBEC Royal Proclamation (1763) British North America Act: “L’ Acte de Québec” (1774) Mandamus of Monsignor Jean-Olivier Briand (1775) 24 September NEW LIGHT IN THE MARITIME PROVINCES Henry Alline, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1797) 29 September LOYALIST NOVA SCOTIA The Rt Rev and Hon Charles Inglis, Steadfastness in Religion and Loyalty recommended in a Sermon in the House of Assembly (1793) 1 October SCOTCH PRESBYTERIANS IN PICTOU COUNTY The Rev Thomas McCulloch, The Mephibosheth Stepsure Letters (1822) 6 October CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN UPPER AND LOWER CANADA The Rt Rev and Hon John Strachan, A Sermon Preached at York, Upper Canada, on the Death of the Late Lord Bishop of Quebec (1825) Confirm Mid-Term Essay Topics Please consult style sheet, essay-writing guidelines, and evaluation rubric. 8 October TOLERATION AND THE CLERGY RESERVES A Despatch from the Governor-General of Canada to Lord Russell (1840) John Strachan, The Clergy Reserves, a letter to the Commissioner of Crown Lands (1854) RELG 420 CANADIAN CHURCH HISTORY 2 13 October CHURCH OF SCOTLAND IN CANADA John Moir, “Crosscurrents of Colonial Presbyterianism”, Enduring Witness (1970) III. OPENING UP THE WEST 15 October RED RIVER SETTLEMENT The Rt Rev George Jehoshaphat Mountain, Red River Journal (1849) 20 October MISSION IN RUPERTSLAND Sarah Tucker, Rainbow in the North (1851) Mid-term Essays (1500-2000 words) due at beginning of class. Essay Conferences to be scheduled for week of 3 November. 22 October TIDINGS FROM THE YUKON Mission Reports by W. Kirkby, W. Bompas, and Robert McDonald (1867) Friday 23 October CLASS EXPEDITION TO QUEBEC CITY (provisional) Tour of the Old Town, Ursuline Museum, Holy Trinity Cathedral 27 October RIEL REBELLION Robert Machray, “The Riel Rebellion,” Life of Robert Machray (1909) IV. FROM CONFEDERATION TO THE GREAT WAR 29 October ULTRA-MONTANISM IN MONTREAL Monsignor Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal (1799-1885) Essay Conferences begin this week, Birks Building, Rm. 206. 3 November MILLENARIANISM IN THE WEST Anthony Rasporich, “Utopia, Sect, and Millenium in Western Canada” (1870-1940) 5 November SPIRIT WRESTLERS Delevan L. Pierson, How Spirit Wrestlers Came To Canada: Russian Doukhobors Universal Brotherhood Christians (1900) 10 November PREACHING DURING THE GREAT WAR The Rev. Thomas Eakin, Principal of Knox College V. CONTEMPORARY CHURCH 12 November CHURCH UNION Subscription to the Basis of Union by the Members of the First General Council of the United Church of Canada (1925) Waterloo Declaration (2001) 17 November UKRAINIAN ORTHODOXY Archbishop Yurij Kalistchuk, Letter to the Faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (2012) 19 November THE CHURCH AND HIGHER EDUCATION George Grant, Canadian Universities and the Protestant Churches (1955) 24 November FIRST NATIONS AND RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS J.R. Miller, Residential Schools in Canada (2012) 26 November THE QUIET REVOLUTION David Seljak, “Why the Quiet Revolution was ‘Quiet’” (1996) Term Research Essays (2500-3000 words) due at beginning of class. 1 December RELIGION AND SECULARITY Rosalie Jukier and José Woehrling, “Religion and the Secular State in Canada” (2015) RELG 420 CANADIAN CHURCH HISTORY 3 EVALUATION Preparation of assigned texts and engagement in tutorial discussion 40% Mid-term Essay and Conference 30% Term Research Essay 30% Absence Policy: maximum of three un-excused absences permitted Resolution passed by the McGill Senate, 29 September 2003: “McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore all students must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism, and other academic offences under the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures (see www.mcgill.ca/integrity for more information).” In accord with McGill University’s Charter of Students’ Rights, students in this course have the right to submit in English or in French any written work that is to be graded. 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