ABSTRACT
This chapter explains global expansion was as much a matter of local appropriation as it was of imposition and expansion. It focuses on this observation which brings directly to the idea of varieties of establishment. The twin ideas of the establishment of religion and the sovereignty of states thus point to a socio-structural situation of both differentiation and a peculiar kind of connection that author call the Westphalian modelling of religion and state. Like most sovereign states around the world, Canada can trace its inheritance to the Westphalian mutual modelling of state and religion. In the case of Canada it was characterized by the creation of a Christian denominational establishment that featured a small number of large and privileged religious organizations which represented and put into practice the thus established' religion. Many and perhaps most of the characteristics of the post-Westphalian situation still have yet to solidify and perhaps even to form, in Canada as elsewhere. However the post-Westphalian regime or regimes eventually look, they present a challenge for religion, in Canada as in other states.
