The thanatology of Quebec Catholicism. Contemporary variants and limitations
This article explores the variants as well as the limits of what it calls the thanatology of French Canadian and Quebec Catholicism. It identifies three of these theses, those most frequently found in the intellectual literature. For each of them, it studies the indicators used to make the diagnosis, the reference period used to measure the decline and, in this, the religious norm used as a scale. In the process, the contemporary intellectual construction of the Catholic object is studied. In the course of this article, the reader will find a plea for the study of Catholicism that exists here and now.