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Religious Organization in Canada and the United States

Religious Organization in Canada and the United States Religious Organization in Canada and the United States* KENNETH WESTHUES University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada A PROMISING STRATEGY for understanding generic differences among national societies is to choose some phenomenon present in each of them and to investigate differences across societies in characteristics of that phenom- enon. Inspection of cross-national differences with respect to a succession of specific organizations, population sectors and institutions can then serve as an empirical foundation on which to base more general statements of how one society differs from another. Such a strategy for comparative sociology, whether implicit or explicit, has informed numerous projects of research com- paring Canada and the United States. The phenomenon under study has ranged from environmental protection legislation (Lundquist 1974) to musical tastes (Skipper 1975), and from value-orientations (Lipset 1967, Truman 1971) to immigrant minorities (Smith and Kornberg 1969) and political elites (Presthus 1974). Much of the work of S. D. Clark (1968, 1976) can be taken as an exemplar of this strategy, though his focus has been more on Canadian uniqueness than Canadian-American differences. The purpose of this essay is to depict differences between Canada and the United States in characteristics of religious organization. The first part de- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) Brill

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Brill
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© 1976 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0020-7152
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1745-2554
DOI
10.1163/156854276X00187
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Religious Organization in Canada and the United States* KENNETH WESTHUES University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada A PROMISING STRATEGY for understanding generic differences among national societies is to choose some phenomenon present in each of them and to investigate differences across societies in characteristics of that phenom- enon. Inspection of cross-national differences with respect to a succession of specific organizations, population sectors and institutions can then serve as an empirical foundation on which to base more general statements of how one society differs from another. Such a strategy for comparative sociology, whether implicit or explicit, has informed numerous projects of research com- paring Canada and the United States. The phenomenon under study has ranged from environmental protection legislation (Lundquist 1974) to musical tastes (Skipper 1975), and from value-orientations (Lipset 1967, Truman 1971) to immigrant minorities (Smith and Kornberg 1969) and political elites (Presthus 1974). Much of the work of S. D. Clark (1968, 1976) can be taken as an exemplar of this strategy, though his focus has been more on Canadian uniqueness than Canadian-American differences. The purpose of this essay is to depict differences between Canada and the United States in characteristics of religious organization. The first part de-

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International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1976

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