斩首圣徒：魁北克的民族主义、宗教和世俗主义
魁北克的邻居们在其存在的大部分时间里称其为“牧师之乡”然而，今天的魁北克社会是坚定的世俗社会，现代福利国家建立在社会服务的非专业提供基础上——这一转变植根于20世纪60年代的“安静革命”。
在斩首圣徒的过程中，Geneviève Zubrzycki通过对6月24日浸信会圣约翰年度盛宴的仔细调查来研究这种转变。她表示，这一国庆节的庆祝活动提供了一个公开辩论法裔加拿大身份这一占主导地位的天主教民族概念的场所，并通过暴力拒绝天主教符号，表达了一种新的世俗魁北克身份。从这里开始，祖布尔兹基将她的分析延伸到了现在，考察了魁北克人身份在最近关于移民、宗教符号在公共领域的地位以及文化遗产问题政治的辩论中的作用，这些辩论也为世界其他地方的类似辩论提供了见解。
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Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec
Through much of its existence, Québec’s neighbors called it the “priest-ridden province.” Today, however, Québec society is staunchly secular, with a modern welfare state built on lay provision of social services—a transformation rooted in the “Quiet Revolution” of the 1960s.
In Beheading the Saint, Geneviève Zubrzycki studies that transformation through a close investigation of the annual Feast of St. John the Baptist of June 24. The celebrations of that national holiday, she shows, provided a venue for a public contesting of the dominant ethno-Catholic conception of French Canadian identity and, via the violent rejection of Catholic symbols, the articulation of a new, secular Québécois identity. From there, Zubrzycki extends her analysis to the present, looking at the role of Québécois identity in recent debates over immigration, the place of religious symbols in the public sphere, and the politics of cultural heritage—issues that also offer insight on similar debates elsewhere in the world.
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