TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘Hijab envy’
T2 - the visible angst of immigrant Christians in a pluralist Canada
AU - Macdonald, Arlene
N1 - Funding Information:
I would like to acknowledge the invaluable assistance of Amina Triki-Yamani in analysing the French transcripts of the Montreal focus groups and demonstrating the lack of ‘hijab envy’ in the Quebec context. This article emerged from my participation as a postdoctoral fellow in the study “Culture, Religion and Integration amongst Young Adults of Immigrant Background in Canada”, which was funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and directed by Prof. Peter Beyer at the University of Ottawa. An additional postdoctoral fellowship, supported by the Canadian MITACS Elevate Fellowship programme and the Religion and Diversity Project (Director Prof. Lori Beaman, University of Ottawa), provided funding and guidance for the development of this article. I would like to thank Prof. Beyer and Prof. Beaman as well as the two anonymous referees of the Journal of Contemporary Religion for their comments and feedback on earlier drafts of this article.
Funding Information:
Arlene Macdonald is an assistant professor at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, USA. She is a Research Associate of the Canadian Religion and Diversity Project, a Major Collaborative Research Initiative funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and located at the University of Ottawa. She was a recent Fellow with the Engaged Scholars Studying Congregations. Her research queries the place of religion in health arenas and in the public sphere. The politics of religious identity, the therapeutic geographies of religious communities, and the contemporary contests and collusions between religion and medicine are areas of interest. CORRESPONDENCE: Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Suite 2.104, Primary Care Pavilion, 301 University Blvd., Galveston, TX 77555-1311, USA.
Funding Information:
1. This is the project “Culture, Religion and Integration amongst Young Adults of Immigrant Background in Canada” (PI Peter Beyer, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, SSHRC).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/1/2
Y1 - 2018/1/2
N2 - This article explores the predilection of Christians of immigrant background to perceive themselves as a disadvantaged group in the new reality of Canada’s growing religious diversity. The present inquiry challenges loss as the definitive emotional register for Christian engagement with Canada’s new religious minorities, demonstrating that religious minorities have elicited begrudging admiration and envy from their Christian counterparts. This inquiry insists that contemporary Canada, not ‘Christian Canada’, is the most important frame for understanding the perceptions and predilections of the Christians in this study. It argues that pluralist ideals, the policy instruments, and social practices that carry these ideals and the cultural forums that display and debate these ideals shape not only the ‘attitudes’ of young Christians, but also the regimes of visibility in which and from which they operate. While scholars impute an increasing visibility to religion, this article demonstrates that the array of affects between viewer and viewed are highly variable and context specific.
AB - This article explores the predilection of Christians of immigrant background to perceive themselves as a disadvantaged group in the new reality of Canada’s growing religious diversity. The present inquiry challenges loss as the definitive emotional register for Christian engagement with Canada’s new religious minorities, demonstrating that religious minorities have elicited begrudging admiration and envy from their Christian counterparts. This inquiry insists that contemporary Canada, not ‘Christian Canada’, is the most important frame for understanding the perceptions and predilections of the Christians in this study. It argues that pluralist ideals, the policy instruments, and social practices that carry these ideals and the cultural forums that display and debate these ideals shape not only the ‘attitudes’ of young Christians, but also the regimes of visibility in which and from which they operate. While scholars impute an increasing visibility to religion, this article demonstrates that the array of affects between viewer and viewed are highly variable and context specific.
KW - Muslim expressive repertoire
KW - Religious pluralism in Canada
KW - politics of religious visibility
KW - second-generation immigrant Christians
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U2 - 10.1080/13537903.2018.1408277
DO - 10.1080/13537903.2018.1408277
M3 - Article
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SN - 1353-7903
VL - 33
SP - 53
EP - 69
JO - Journal of Contemporary Religion
JF - Journal of Contemporary Religion
IS - 1
ER -