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Winter 2013
Regulating Religion
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It's with great pleasure that I start this New Year by adding two new articles to our e-journal. In a similar fashion than the articles published this summer, these two pieces propose to look at pressing questions around the regulation of religion by adopting refreshing and interdisciplinary outlooks.
These pieces are both based on analysis of Canadian legal decisions related to religious freedom. The first research paper by Louise Tardif documents the evolution of the Supreme Court of Canada’s understanding of religion in religious freedom cases over the past decades. The author argues, by looking more particularly into the Syndicat Northcrest v. Amselem case, that the Court’s view of religion has been shifting from approaching it mainly as both a collective and individual practice and belief, to solely an individual and subjective pursuit. She then discusses the consequences of this shift for religious communities, and more broadly for the (im)possibility of achieving religious freedom in Canada.
In the second article, Dia Dabby, draws on a recent Canadian decision: Director and Family services v. D.M.P et al, [2010] MBQB 32 to propose that we adopt a new lens to analyze and unpack the web of relationships and competing claims that structure religious freedom cases in which children are involved. Building on the work of Jennifer Nedelsky, the author explores the limits of boundaries and bounded metaphors to grasp the complexities of relationships in religious freedom cases, and invites us to think of the human skin as an alternative spatial metaphor to better appreciate the nuances of these relationships.
Both these pieces continue to point to the multifaceted and complex relationships between religion, politics and law today. We invite graduate students from all disciplines to submit papers for review in French or English that explore different facets of these intimate relations. In the meantime, we hope that you will enjoy reading these new pieces and that they will stimulate your ongoing reflection on these relations.
Amélie Barras
January 9, 2013
Winter 2013 - In this issue:
- Religious Freedom in Canada: Whither the Community? by Louise Tardif
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
Le Berkley Center at Georgetown University a été créé au sein du bureau de John J. DeGioia, Président de Georgetown, en mars 2006. Le centre a été conçu afin de miser sur les forces de Georgetown: l'excellence académique; son emplacement à Washington, DC; sa portée internationale et sa tradition catholique et jésuite d'ouverture aux autres religions et au vaste monde séculier. Le généreux soutien de William R. Berkley, un membre du conseil d'administration de l'université, a permis la croissance rapide du centre.
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The Project is happy to provide information about research centres, initiatives and projects across Canada and beyond that are focusing on the examination of religion, diversity, pluralism and society through its “Research Centres” page. Led by our Team Member Pamela Klassen and housed at the University of Toronto, the mandate of the Religion in the Public Sphere initiative is to examine how religion manifests in public spaces, institutions, and interactions, and consider the challenges and possibilities of religious diversity in Toronto and around the globe. To learn more about this initiative, please click here.