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2012年5月15日 · From Albert Larrieu to Théodore Botrel (two French composer-performers who toured Quebec several times between 1910 and 1925), the Bonne Chanson served as a guide to popular values, as the beauty of the most-favoured works attests.
2006年2月7日 · The novel mixes Gothic and historical romance with Québecois history and legend; it also provides insight into 19th-century English Canadian perceptions of French Canada's past. The Golden Dog was translated into French by Léon-Pamphile Le May as Le Chien d'Or: légende canadienne (Montréal, 1884; rev 1926). Read More // William Kirby.
- New Religious Movements
- Canadian Membership Statistics
- Why Do People Join?
- The Brainwashing-Deprogramming Controversy
- Identifying New Religions
- New Canadian Religions
- New Age, The Mystical Movement and The Search For Individual Spirituality
- Spiritualism
- Abramic
- Yogic
Cults or New Religions The complexity of the subject has led scholars to abandon the popular term "cult" - which became associated with the 1978 People's Temple mass suicide/murders in Jonestown, Guyana; the Waco tragedy; the Solar Temple murders in Québec and Switzerland; and similar events worldwide - in favour of the more neutral term "New Relig...
It is very difficult to give accurate membership figures for most new religions. The groups themselves, and their critics, both tend to exaggerate their numbers. Thus in the late 1970s Toronto Magazineclaimed that there were 10 000 members of the Hare Krishna Movement in Toronto. The movement itself said that there were 5000 devotees. But when inve...
There are many technical theories about conversion to new religions. Some scholars posit social unrest while others stress religious factors such as dead orthodoxies in historic churches. The important point is to try to understand why a particular individual is attracted to a specific group. This can only be done through close contact with and car...
One reason for media interest in new religions during the 1970s was the claim that they "brainwashed" their members. This claim was propagated by lurid autobiographical accounts, together with television and radio interviews given by people who said they had "escaped" from a cult. Theoretical support for these claims came from Flo Conway and Jim Si...
Three main religious systems provide the basic ingredients for the majority of new religions. These are the Abramic, Yogic and Primal religious traditions.
Over the years Canada has seen the growth of numerous indigenous new religious movements. Following the War of 1812 an Ontario-based Quaker sect, the Children of Peace, flourished until it finally died out in 1889. In the 1890s various Mormon groups moved to Canada to escape "persecution" in America and continue the practice of polygamy. Today, the...
Although group-organized new religious movements have gained notoriety, a growing number of people from young adults through to seniors are involved in individual quests for spirituality and healing and do not affiliate with such groups. These people constitute what the German sociologist Ernst Troeltsch identified as a "mystical movement." The ter...
Many Canadian spiritualists attend "camps" in the US, where formal classes are held in healing, mediumship and aspects of the belief system, and a minister's or healing certificate may be obtained. It is primarily an urban, middle-class phenomenon. Spiritualists are not marginal to society, but participate actively in community affairs; their activ...
Abramic religions are those religions which claim the patriarch Abraham as their common ancestor and include Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
Yogic religions are those religions which centre their devotion on the practice of yoga, or meditation, and find their origin in the religious traditions of India.
2009年7月13日 · The Tla-o-qui-aht, originally comprised of a number of small groups that lived around Ha-ooke-min (Kennedy Lake), allied with neighbouring groups to conquer the Esowistaht and other nations whose territories included Tofino Inlet, part of Meares Island and the Esowista Peninsula.
2013年7月9日 · Alice Munro (nee Laidlaw), short story writer (born 10 July 1931 in Wingham, Ontario; died 13 May 2024 in Port Hope, ON). Alice Munro is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of fiction in the English-speaking world.
2007年3月12日 · A Loup-Garou is generally believed to a person who can change into animal form, often as a wolf. In French Canadian folklore, the Loup-Garou is often a dog. It may also take the form of a calf or small ox, a pig, a cat or even an owl. See also Oral Literature in French.
2022年1月18日 · Marie-Josèphe Angélique was an enslaved Black woman owned by Thérèse de Couagne de Francheville in Montreal. In 1734, she was charged with arson after a fire leveled Montreal’s merchants’ quarter. It was alleged that Angélique committed the act while attempting to flee her bondage. She was convicted, tortured, and hanged.
