Religion, culture, and the state : reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor report /

"The Canadian principle of reasonable accommodation demands that the cultural majority make certain concessions to the needs of minority groups if these concessions will not cause 'undue hardship.' This principle has caused much debate in Quebec, particularly over issues of language,...

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Other Authors: Adelman, Howard, 1938-, Anctil, Pierre
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Reasonable accommodation in the Canadian legal context : a mechanism for handling diversity or a source of tension? / Pierre Anctil
  • Monoculturalism versus interculturalism in a multicultural world / Howard Adelman
  • The Bouchard-Taylor Commission and the Jewish community of Québec in historical perspective / Ira Robinson
  • "Qui est nous?" : some answers from the Bouchard-Taylor Commission's archive / Bina Toledo Freiwald
  • The B-T report "open secularism" model and the Supreme Court of Canada decisions on freedom of religion and religious accommodation / José Woehrling
  • Conclusion : religion, culture, and the state / Howard Adelman.