Law And Religious Pluralism In Canada
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| Author | : Richard J. Moon |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2009-05-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0774858532 |
Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada seeks to elucidate the complex and often uneasy relationship between law and religion in democracies committed both to equal citizenship and religious pluralism. Leading socio-legal scholars consider the role of religious values in public decision making, government support for religious practices, and the restriction and accommodation by government of minority religious practices. They examine such current issues as the legal recognition of sharia arbitration, the re-definition of civil marriage, and the accommodation of religious practice in the public sphere.
| Author | : Iain T. Benson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 430 |
| Release | : 2017-09 |
| Genre | : Freedom of religion |
| ISBN | : 9780433495628 |
In recent years, law and religion scholarship in Canada has grown significantly. This distinctive collection of 18 papers addresses, from a variety of angles, the jurisdiction and the limits of law ¿ an important but often overlooked aspect of settling the boundaries of church and state, religion and law. The volume draws the insights of 19 authoritative contributors of diverse background and examines changes in the role and meaning of religion in society, the dimensions of law and religion and finally, the conflicts between freedom of religion and other freedoms as looked upon as fundamental rights of a liberal society.
| Author | : Dia Dabby |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2022-02 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780774862370 |
This comprehensive analysis of the legally complex relationship between religion and public schools will compel readers to reconsider the role of law in education.
| Author | : Lori Gail Beaman |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9004170154 |
Canada officially prides itself on being a multicultural nation, welcoming people from all around the world, and enshrining that status in its Charter of Rights and Freedoms as well as in an array of laws and policies that aim to protect citizens from discrimination on various grounds, including race, cultural origin, sexual orientation, and religion. This volume explores the intersection of these diversities, foregrounding religion as the primary focus of analysis. Taking as their point of departure the contested meaning and implications of the term diversity, the various contributions address issues such as the power relations that diversity implies, the cultural context that limits the understanding and practical acceptance of religious diversity, and how Canada compares in these matters to other countries. Taken together the essays therefore elucidate the Canadian case while also having relevance for understanding this critical issue globally.
| Author | : Benjamin L. Berger |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2016-01-28 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1442696397 |
Prevailing stories about law and religion place great faith in the capacity of legal multiculturalism, rights-based toleration, and conceptions of the secular to manage issues raised by religious difference. Yet the relationship between law and religion consistently proves more fraught than such accounts suggest. In Law’s Religion, Benjamin L. Berger knocks law from its perch above culture, arguing that liberal constitutionalism is an aspect of, not an answer to, the challenges of cultural pluralism. Berger urges an approach to the study of law and religion that focuses on the experience of law as a potent cultural force. Based on a close reading of Canadian jurisprudence, but relevant to all liberal legal orders, this book explores the nature and limits of legal tolerance and shows how constitutional law’s understanding of religion shapes religious freedom. Rather than calling for legal reform, Law’s Religion invites us to rethink the ethics, virtues, and practices of adjudication in matters of religious difference.
| Author | : Anver M. Emon |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 2012-07-26 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0199661634 |
Analysing the rules governing the treatment of foreigners in Islam and situating them in their historical, political, and legal context, this book sets out a new framework for understanding these rules as part of a wider problem of governing through law amidst pluralism.
| Author | : Dia Dabby |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2022-02-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0774864664 |
Canadian public schools have long been entrusted with socializing children. Yet this duty can rest uneasily alongside religious diversity questions. Grounding its analysis in three seminal Supreme Court cases, Religious Diversity in Canadian Public Schools reveals complex legal processes that compress multidimensional conversations into an oppositional format and exclude the voices of children themselves. Dia Dabby contends that schools are in fact microsystems with the power to construct their own rules and relationships. This compelling work encourages a deeper conversation about how religion is mediated through public schools, inviting a critical reassessment of the role of law in education.
| Author | : Derek B. M. Ross |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Freedom of religion |
| ISBN | : 9780433502470 |
"The role of the state in resolving social tensions rooted in competing "sets of ultimate commitments" among citizens, and the role of the law in resolving such moral conflicts between the citizen and the state. How, and why, differences ought to be accommodated in a free and democratic society. The issues explored are becoming intensely pertinent as Canada's religious diversity increases, the state expands into areas traditionally seen as private, and state actors seek to promote certain 'values'."--
| Author | : Sonia Sikka |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2014-06-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0773592210 |
How, and to what extent, can religion be included within commitments to multiculturalism? Multiculturalism and Religious Identity addresses this question by examining the political recognition and management of religious identity in Canada and India. In multicultural policy, practice, and literature, religion has until recently not been included within broader discussions of multiculturalism, perhaps due to worries of potential for conflict with secularism. This collection undertakes a contemporary analysis of how the Canadian and Indian states each approach religious diversity through social and political policies, as well as how religion and secularism meet both philosophically and politically in contested public space. Although Canada and India have differing political and religious histories - leading to different articulations of multiculturalism, religious diversity, and secularism - both countries share a commitment to ensuring fair treatment for the different religious communities they include. Combining broader theoretical and normative reflections with close case studies, Multiculturalism and Religious Identity leads the way to addressing these timely issues in the Canadian and Indian contexts.
| Author | : David Rayside |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 449 |
| Release | : 2017-06-07 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0774835613 |
Religion is usually thought of as inconsequential to contemporary Canadian politics. Religion and Canadian Party Politics takes a hard look at just how much influence faith continues to have in federal, provincial, and territorial political arenas. Drawing on case studies from across the country, this book explores three important axes of religiously based contention in Canada. Early on, there were the denominational distinctions between Catholics and Protestants that shaped party oppositions. Since the 1960s, a newly politicized divide opened between religious conservatives and political reformers. Then from the 1990s on, sporadic controversy has centred on the recognition of non-Christian religious minority rights. Although the extent of partisan engagement with each of these sources of conflict has varied across time and region, this book shows that religion still matters in shaping party politics . This detailed look at the play of religiously based conflict and accommodation in Canada fills a large gap and pulls us back from overly simplified comparisons with the United States. More broadly, this book also compares the role of faith in politics in Canada to that of other Western industrialized societies.
