Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada

Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada
Author: Richard Moon
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2009-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780774814980

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.

Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada

Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada
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.

Religious Diversity in Canadian Public Schools

Religious Diversity in Canadian Public Schools
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.

Religion, Liberty and the Jurisdictional Limits of Law

Religion, Liberty and the Jurisdictional Limits of Law
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.

Law's Religion

Law's Religion
Author: Benjamin L. Berger
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 236
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.

Canadian Pluralism and the Charter

Canadian Pluralism and the Charter
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'."--

Multiculturalism and Religious Identity

Multiculturalism and Religious Identity
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.

Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law

Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law
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.

Religion in the Public Sphere

Religion in the Public Sphere
Author: Solange Lefebvre
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1442626305

The place of religion in the public realm is the subject of frequent and lively debate in the media, among academics and policymakers, and within communities. With this edited collection, Solange Lefebvre and Lori G. Beaman bring together a series of case studies of religious groups and practices from all across Canada that re-examine and question the classic distinction between the public and private spheres. Religion in the Public Sphere explores the public image of religious groups, legal issues relating to “reasonable accommodations,” and the role of religion in public services and institutions like health care and education. Offering a wide range of contributions from religious studies, political science, theology, and law, Religion in the Public Sphere presents emerging new models to explain contemporary relations between religion, civil society, the private sector, family, and the state.

Secular States and Religious Diversity

Secular States and Religious Diversity
Author: Bruce J. Berman
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2013-10-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0774825154

Contemporary nation-states have seen the rise of religious pluralism within their borders, brought about by global migration and the challenge of radical religious movements. Secular States and Religious Diversity explores the meaning of secularism and religious freedom in these new contexts. The contributors chart the impact of globalization, the varying forms of secularism in Western states, and the different kinds of relations between states and religious institutions in the historical traditions and contemporary politics of Islamic, Indic, and Chinese societies. They also examine the limitations and dilemmas of governmental responses to religious diversity, and grapple with the question of how secular states deal (and should deal) with such pluralism. This volume brings in perspectives from the non-Western world and engages with viewpoints that might increase states’ capacities to accommodate religious diversity positively.