| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.2 | The History Cooperative

Michael Gauvreau. The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931–1970. (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, Series Two, number 41.) Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2005. Pp. siv, 501. $85.00.
The watershed in most accounts of the history of twentieth-century Quebec came with the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s that ushered in an interventionist state and swept away the long-standing influence of the Catholic Church. In the aftermath of these changes, French speakers (the vast majority of the population) considerably improved their economic status and developed enough self-confidence to consider independence. As a result, the Quiet Revolution has been widely accepted as the moment that firmly inserted Quebecers into the mainstream of North American life.	1
Michael Gauvreau's considerable accomplishment, in this important book, is to reexamine the concept of the Quiet Revolution by disconnecting the decline of Catholicism from the growth of the state. Instead of dwelling on the determination of Quebecers to unburden themselves of a religious yoke, he focuses on individuals who worked from within the Catholic Church to negotiate social change. From this perspective, the Quiet Revolution might be seen as a "sustained attempt to enhance and strengthen, rather than weaken and ultimately sever, the relationship between Catholicism and Quebec society" (p. 5).	. . .

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