Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures and Tables ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xvi
6. Introduction 3
7. Federal Politics
8. Conservative Faith and Federal Parties 39
9. Abortion Politics and Federal Parties 75
10. Persistent Denominationalism in Provincial Politics
11. Religion in Atlantic Provincial Politics: The Special Cases of Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick 113
12. Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives and Tenacious Denominational Politics, 1943–85 140
13. Religious Conservatism and the Partisan Right
14. Sexual Diversity and the Mobilization of Faith Communities in Ontario, 1986–2015 159
15. The Declining Influence of Conservative Faith in Alberta since 1971 196
16. Schooling, Sexuality, and Religious Conservatism in British Columbia Politics 240
17. Canada’s Most Distinctive Regions
18. Conflicted Secularism in Francophone Quebec Party Politics 269
19. Evangelical Christianity and Northern Territorial Politics 311
20. Conclusion: Canadian Diversity in Comparative Context 329
21. Notes 358
22. Index 412