"Professors Crysdale and Wheatcroft have assembled a comprehensive selection of studies on aspects of religion in Canada. The book contains 33 articles by sociologists, anthropologists, and historians, many of them published here for the first time. The editors' substantial introduction provides a cogent outline of the nature of socioreligious studies in Canada today; it includes a discussion of theoretical perspectives and methods of inquiry, and an analysis of the problems and issues confronting Canadian social scientists working in this field. The studies in this volume deal with such topics as the place of religion in the lives of indigenous peoples; religion and its adaptation to social change; responses to religious callings; and religion and cultural/ethnic cleavages."-Publisher.