Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada

Edited by Richard J. Moon
Categories: Religious Studies, Law & Legal Studies, Law & Society
Series: Law and Society
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774814973, 328 pages, October 2008
Paperback : 9780774814980, 328 pages, July 2009
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774814997, 328 pages, July 2009
Ebook (MobiPocket) : 9780774852982, 328 pages, August 2014
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774858533, 328 pages, May 2009

Table of contents

Introduction: Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada / Richard Moon

 

1 View
from the Succah: Religion and Neighbourly Relations / Shauna Van Praagh

 

2 Clashes
of Principle and the Possibility of Dialogue: A Case Study of Same-Sex Marriage in the United Church in
Canada / Jennifer Nedelsky and Roger Hutchinson

 

3 Associational Rights,
Religion, and the Charter / David Schneiderman

 

4 The Canadian Conception of Equal Religious Citizenship / Bruce Ryder

 

5 Living by Different Law: Legal Pluralism, Freedom of Religion, and Illiberal Religious Groups / Alvin Esau

 

6 In the (Canadian) Shadow of Islamic Law: Translating Mahr as a Bargaining Endowment / Pascale Fournier

 

7 Living Law on a Living Earth: Aboriginal Religion, Law, and the Constitution / John Borrows

 

8 Defining Religion: The Promise and the Peril of Legal Interpretation / Lori G. Beaman

 

9 Government Support for Religious Practice / Richard Moon

 

10 Ontario's Sharia Law Debate: Law and Politics under the Charter / Lorraine E. Weinrib

 

11 Law's Religion: Rendering Culture / Benjamin L. Berger

 

Index

Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada considers the role of religious values in public decision making, government support for religious practices, and restriction and accommodation of minority religious practices.

Description

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.