selected scholarly activity
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books
- Bodies, Love, and Faith in the First World War 2018
- Introduction: 'Even the hippies were only very slowly going secular': Dechristianization and the culture of individualism in North America and Western Europe 2012
- The sixties and beyond: Dechristianization in North America and Western Europe, 1945–2000 2012
- Christian churches and their peoples, 1840-1965: A social history of religion in Canada 2010
- Mapping the margins: The family and social discipline in Canada, 1700-1975 2004
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chapters
- Introduction: Making Love Sexual in the Edwardian Age. Genders and Sexualities in History. 1-17. 2018
- Phallic Thumbs: Conceiving a New Eden. Genders and Sexualities in History. 69-103. 2018
- Purring Vaginas and Waggling Penises: Sexting World War I. Genders and Sexualities in History. 191-250. 2018
- The Carnal Brother Body: Emotion, Interiority and the Epistolary “Talking Cure”. Genders and Sexualities in History. 105-145. 2018
- The Emotional Body: Religion and Male Friendship at Oxford. Genders and Sexualities in History. 19-68. 2018
- The Gendered Body: Marriage and “A Home of My Own”. Genders and Sexualities in History. 147-190. 2018
- The Maternal Body: Pregnancy, Child-Rearing and Birth Control. Genders and Sexualities in History. 251-274. 2018
- “Are the Thumbs Still Wagging?”: Gwyneth, Harry and the Psyche of an Age. Genders and Sexualities in History. 275-288. 2018
- Secularisation or Resacralisation? The Canadian Case, 1760-2000. 93-117. 2016
- Secularisation or resacralisation? The Canadian case, 1760–2000. 93-117. 2013
- "They are not of our generation": Youth, gender, catholicism, and Quebec's dechristianization, 1950-1970. 62-90. 2012
- 'Without making a noise': The dumont commission and the drama of Quebec’s dechristianization, 1968–1971. 186-216. 2012
- Secularisation or resacralisation? The canadian case, 1760-2000. 93-117. 2010
- Beyond the search for intellectuals: On the paucity of paradigms in the writing of canadian intellectual history. 53-90. 2010
- Conclusion: The family as pathology psychology, social science, and history construct the nuclear family, 1945-1980. 383-407. 2004
- The Emergence of Personalist Feminism: Catholicism and the Marriage-Preparation Movement in Quebec, 1940-1966. 319-347. 2002
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journal articles
- ‘Un jugement politique’: race, policy and punishment in colonial Saint-Domingue before 1789. French History. 38:179-194. 2024
- “Every Planter Has Become an Enlightened Politician”. French Historical Studies. 47:1-38. 2024
- ‘From This Common Collaboration’: Married Women and Economic Enterprise in Quebec Under the British Regime, c.1763-1820. Cultural and Social History. 20:637-660. 2023
- “Freedom of the Fassions”: The Politics of the Street in Montreal and the Struggle against the British Fiscal-Military State. Critical Historical Studies. 4:75-106. 2017
- Marital Conflict, Ethnicity, and Legal Hybridity in Postconquest Quebec. Journal of Family History. 41:430-450. 2016
- Diagnostiquer la « schizophrénie spirituelle » du Canada français1 : la politique spirituelle de Claude Ryan, 1952-1958. Revue d'Histoire de l'Amerique Francaise. 67:375-401. 2014
- Roy, Martin, Une réforme dans la fidélité. La revue Maintenant (1962-1974) et la « mise à jour » du catholicisme québécois (Québec, Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2012), 321 p.. Revue d'Histoire de l'Amerique Francaise. 67:455-455. 2014
- God's Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World, c. 1801–1908 Hilary M. Carey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 421 pp. £63 (hardback). Britain and the World. 6:276-279. 2013
- Florian Michel . La pensée catholique en Amérique du Nord: Réseaux intellectuels et échanges culturels entre l'Europe, le Canada et les États‐Unis (années 1920–1960) . Preface by John T. McGreevy . (Pages D'Histoire.) Paris : Desclee . 2010 . Pp. 629. €48.00.. American Historical Review. 116:440-441. 2011
- Catholicisme, nationalisme et fédéralisme dans la pensée de Claude Ryan. Revue d'Histoire de l'Amerique Francaise. 62:429-472. 2009
- Forging a New Space for Lay Male Piety: St. Vincent de Paul Societies in Urban Quebec and Ontario, 1846–1890. Histoire Sociale. 42:35-67. 2009
- Suzanne Clavette (en collaboration avec Hélène Bois, Jean-Paul Rouleau, Gilles Routhier et Jean Sexton), Gérard Dion : artisan de la Révolution tranquille, Québec, Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2008, xvii-648 p. 40 $. Études d'histoire religieuse. 75:129-129. 2009
- On the new chronology of the Quebec modernity: Two cultural revolutions?. Revue d'Histoire de l'Amerique Francaise. 60:385-389. 2007
- ALVYN AUSTIN and JAMIE S. SCOTT, editors. Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples: Representing Religion at Home and Abroad. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 2005. Pp. viii, 326. Cloth $65.00, paper $29.95. American Historical Review. 112:1154-1154. 2007
- The other Quebec: Microhistorical essays on nineteenth-century religion and society. Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture. 76:672-674. 2007
- Michael Gauvreau, The Catholic Origins of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970 (Montréal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006), xiv-506 p.. Revue d'Histoire de l'Amerique Francaise. 60:373-373. 2007
- :Anglicans and the Atlantic World: High Churchmen, Evangelicals, and the Quebec Connection.(McGill‐Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, Series Two, number 25.). American Historical Review. 110:1154-1155. 2005
- Modernity and the Dilemma of North American Anglican Identities, 1880-1950 (review). Catholic Historical Review. 91:865-867. 2005
- Quand la jeunesse entre en scene: l'Action catholique avant la Revolution tranquille (review). Canadian Historical Review, The. 85:852-854. 2004
- Religion and Public Life in Canada: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (review). Canadian Historical Review, The. 85:630-632. 2004
- Covenanter democracy: Scottish popular religion, ethnicity, and the varieties of politico-religious dissent in Upper Canada, 1815-1841. Histoire Sociale. 36:55-83. 2003
- Modalities of social authority: Suggesting an interface for religious and social history. Histoire Sociale. 36:1-30. 2003
- Western challenge: The Presbyterian Church in Canada's mission on the prairies and North, 1885-1925. Canadian Historical Review, The. 83:621-622. 2002
- Revivals, Baptists, and George Rawlyk: A memorial volume. Canadian Historical Review, The. 83:120-122. 2002
- DOLL, Peter M., Revolution, Religion, and National Identity. Imperial Anglicanism in British North America, 1745-1795 (Cranbury (NJ), Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), 336 p.. Revue d'Histoire de l'Amerique Francaise. 56:253-253. 2002
- LYON, David et Marguerite VAN DIE, dir., Rethinking Church, State and Modernity : Canada Between Europe and America (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2000), xiv-353 p.. Revue d'Histoire de l'Amerique Francaise. 55:623-623. 2002
- Reluctant Voluntaries: Peter and George Brown: The Scottish Disruption and the Politics of Church and State in Canada. Journal of Religious History. 25:134-157. 2001
- Academic Freedom in Canada: A History. American Historical Review. 105:1724-1724. 2000
- From Rechristianization to Contestation: Catholic Values and Quebec Society, 1931–1970. Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture. 69:803-833. 2000
- Michiel Horn. <italic>Academic Freedom in Canada: A History</italic>. Buffalo: University of Toronto Press. 1999. Pp. xv, 446. $39.95. American Historical Review. 105:1724-1725. 2000
- Children of Peace. W. John McIntyre. Journal of Religion. 77:148-149. 1997
- Canada dry: Temperance crusades before Confederation - Noel,J. Catholic Historical Review. 83:151-153. 1997
- Baptist Religion and the Social Science of Harold Innis. Canadian Historical Review, The. 76:161-204. 1995
- GRANT,GEORGE - A BIOGRAPHY - CHRISTIAN,W. Canadian Historical Review, The. 76:263-265. 1995
- Matters of Mind: The University in Ontario, 1791-1951. History of Education Quarterly. 35:460-460. 1995
- SECULARIZING THE FAITH - CANADIAN PROTESTANT CLERGY AND THE CRISIS OF BELIEF, 1850-1940 - MARSHALL,DB. Catholic Historical Review. 80:402-404. 1994
- Serving the Present Age: Revivalism, Progressivism, and the Methodist Tradition in Canada.. American Historical Review. 98:981-981. 1993
- BEYOND THE HALF-WAY-HOUSE - EVANGELICALISM AND THE SHAPING OF ENGLISH-CANADIAN CULTURE. Acadiensis. 20:158-177. 1991
- THE POLITICS OF THE IMAGINATION - A LIFE OF SCOTT,F.R. - DJWA,S. Labour. 288-290. 1989
- CONTOURS OF CANADIAN THOUGHT - MCKILLOP,AB. Queen's quarterly. 95:907-908. 1988
- PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND HISTORY - BRETT,GEORGE,SIDNEY AND THE QUEST FOR A SOCIAL-SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY-OF-TORONTO, 1910 - 1940. Historical papers / the Canadian Historical Association = Communications historiques / la Societe historique du Canada. Canadian Historical Association. Meeting. 209-236. 1988
- Baconianism, Darwinism, Fundamentalism: A Transatlantic Crisis of Faith. Journal of Religious History. 13:434-444. 1985
- The Taming of History: Reflections on the Canadian Methodist Encounter with Biblical Criticism, 1830–1900. Canadian Historical Review, The. 65:315-346. 1984
- Le couple religion\urbanité : les trajectoires anglocanadienne et québécoise à la lumière de l’historiographie internationale. Études d'histoire religieuse. 72:7-29.