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This paper deals with theoretical questions for future research on the perceptions of the relations between "Quebecers" and "Muslims" in Quebec, in light of the events surrounding the Bouchard-Taylor Commission. It first presents theoretical guidelines based on the approach of pluriscope identities. This is followed by contextual remarks about the nature of the links between secularism and religion in Quebec, which have influenced such perceptions. A working hypothesis is formulated: the diverse perceptions of Muslims by the non-Muslim French-Canadian majority in Quebec are the results of a reproduction of a pattern of relationships to otherness, which includes a broad range of attitudes, from tolerance and openness to intolerance and exclusion. What remains to be established is the relative importance of these discourses with respect to each other.
Keywords: identité, Bouchard-Taylor, exclusion, islam, Québec, Identity, Bouchard-Taylor, exclusion, Islam, Quebec, identidad, Bouchard-Taylor, exlusion, islam, Quebec
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This is the text of Imre Szeman's public conference presenting the first Canadian Anthology of Cultural Studies (2009) which he co-edited. This anthology raises the key questions of intellectual tradition, metaphorical empires, and of the 'national' dimension built into our own critical understanding of culture in Canada. In this conference, Szeman also points to a set of issues concerning Canadian Cultural Studies' particular and ambivalent development in relation to Canada's modernization process and also in relation to the international development of Cultural Studies as a body of cultural criticism and theory.
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SummaryAs a secular priest among the Micmacs from 1735 to 1762, Pierre Maillard is first remembered by historians for his contribution in maintaining the partnership between the French and the Micmac. Since the end of the 19th century, Catholic historians have presented him as an emblematic missionary figure promoting the values supported by the establishment of the Catholic Church in Acadia. Finally, this figure is recovered in Maillard's commemoration to legitimize the roots of the Catholic Church in the Halifax community.
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