talk by Dr. Tina Fetner, Sociology Colloquium Series, for posting please

[Luanne McGinley]

Dr. Tina Fetner, McMaster University
Date: April 8, 2010  1-3pm
Location: PAS 2438

"Religious Right in Canada and the United States: Are We Headed in the Same
Direction?"

 

Abstract: The combination of the rise in political influence by religious
right activists in the United States with the recent rise to power of the
Conservative party in Canada has some pundits wondering whether Canada is
following in the footsteps of the United States. In this presentation, I
employ a historical institutionalist perspective to this comparative case. I
examine key differences in the infrastructure of para-church organizations
built by evangelicals in these two nations. Out of these para-church
institutions and networks, the religious right rose to great power in the
United States. The Canadian religious right, on the other hand, does not
have access to similar institutional infrastructure, the wealth produced by
major media empires, or the cultural iconography of evangelical
Christianity. This leaves Canadian religious activists in a much weaker
position than their neighbours to the south.

 

Bio: Tina Fetner is Associate Professor of Sociology at McMaster University
in Hamilton, Ontario. Her work has been published in Social Problems, Public
Opinion Quarterly, and the American Journal of Political Science. Her 2008
book, How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism, examines the
dynamic relationship between these two opposing movements over their
thirty-year history and demonstrates that the growth of the lesbian and gay
movement was influenced by this powerful foe. Fetner's current projects
include analyses of same-sex relationships in the era of legal marriage and
youth participation in gay-straight alliances.

 

All are welcome to attend!

 

 

 

Luanne McGinley, BA
Administrative Secretary,  Dept. of Sociology & Legal Studies
PAS 2045
519-888-4567, ext. 32421

 

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