Religion and the exercise of public authority / edited by Benjamin L Berger and Richard Moon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berger, Benjamin L., 1977- editor.

Moon, Richard, 1956- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church and state--Canada.

Church and state.

Freedom of religion--Canada.

Freedom of religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

In the burgeoning literature on law and religion, scholarly attention has tended to focus on broad questions concerning the scope of religious freedom, the nature of toleration and the meaning of secularism. An under-examined issue is how religion figures in the decisions, actions and experiences of those charged with performing public duties. This point of contact between religion and public authority has generated a range of legal and political controversies around issues such as the wearing of religious symbols by public officials, prayer at municipal government meetings, religious education and conscientious objection by public servants. Authored by scholars from a variety of disciplines, the chapters in this volume provide insight into these and other issues. Yet the volume also provides an entry point into a deeper examination of the concepts that are often used to organise and manage religious diversity, notably state neutrality. By examining the exercise of public authority by individuals who are religiously committed - or who, in the discharge of their public responsibilities, must account for those who are - this volume exposes the assumptions about legal and political life that underlie the concept of state neutrality and reveals its limits as a governing ideal

Contents:

Introduction : religious neutrality and the exercise of public authority

Richard Moon and Benjamin L Berger

The meaning and entailment of the religious neutrality of the state : the case of public employees

Jocelyn Maclure

Against circumspection : judges, religious symbols, and signs of moral independence

Benjamin L Berger

Religious lawyering and legal ethics

Faisal Bhabha

Managing and imagining religion in Canada from the top and the bottom : 15 years after

Paul Bramadat

God keep our land : the legal ritual of the McKenna-McBride Royal Commission, 1913-16

Pamela E Klassen

In

visible religion in public institutions : Canadian Muslim public servants

Amélie Barras, Jennifer A Selby, and Lori G Beaman

The prayer case saga in canada : an expert insider? : perspective on praying in the political and public arenas

Solange Lefebvre

Physicians' rights to conscientious objection

Bruce Ryder

Conscientious objections by civil servants : the case of marriage commissioners and same-sex civil marriages

Richard Moon

A freedom of religion-based argument against religious schools

Daniel M Weinstock

"Open house

portes ouvertes" : classrooms as sites of interfaith interface

Shauna Van Praagh.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781509906475

1509906479

9781509906499

1509906495

9781509906482

1509906487

OCLC:

936687600