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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Richard W. Vaudry. Anglicans and the Atlantic World: High Churchmen, Evangelicals, and the Quebec Connection. (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, Series Two, number 25.) Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 315. $60.00.

Historical study of religion in Canada has flourished over the past quarter-century, driven by a series of excellent scholarly monographs devoted to Protestant evangelicalism and Roman Catholicism. However, Anglicanism has remained a relatively underdeveloped current within this new historiographic trajectory. Scholars of Canada's religious past have been reluctant to critically approach the study of Anglicanism for two major reasons. First, existing major treatments of Anglicanism have ineluctably identified it with a "failed" British attempt to transplant a church establishment that underpinned a system of aristocratic, conservative values to its North American colonies following the American Revolution. There is an implicit tendency to view Anglicanism as a major part of an obsolete social order doomed to destruction in the face of the "natural" democracy and religious voluntarism characteristic of the Canadian social environment. Second, the very existence of an institution whose identity was so emphatically "British" offends the nationalist proclivities of most Canadian religious historians, whose attention is fixed on those churches whose anticolonial or "North American" tendencies energized nation-building, both in English Canada and Quebec. At best, within the Canadian religious narrative, the colonial Church of England functions as a convenient foil to the inevitable triumph of religious pluralism, voluntarism, and political democracy.

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