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Reasonable Accommodation - Managing Religious Diversity (Paperback)
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Reasonable Accommodation - Managing Religious Diversity (Paperback)
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Often when a religious minority challenges mainstream
Canadian
customs, the phrase "reasonable accommodation" and its
boundaries are at the centre of the ensuing debate. But what
exactly is
reasonable accommodation? Does it achieve its goal of integrating
the
rights of religious minorities with those of mainstream
society - or does it emphasize inequality?
"Reasonable Accommodation" features eight interdisciplinary
essays addressing how reasonable accommodation is defined within
Canada
and abroad through law and public discourse. These probing
explorations
based on empirical studies and legal cases touch on current
hot-button
topics such as women's right to wear the niqab in public,
religious diversity in prisons, and accommodating sexual
diversity.
Woven through the chapters are questions and commentary about
whether
there really is a religious majority in Canada, how the idea
of
"shared values" obscures debate, and how tolerating
religious differences simply isn't enough to guarantee
equality.
"Reasonable Accommodation" provides a much-needed critical
assessment of this phrase and theorizes religious diversity and
freedom
of religion beyond the meaning of "tolerance" as it
sometimes implies.
Combining perspectives from the fields of law, religious studies,
political science, philosophy and sociology, "Reasonable
Accommodation" is a must-read for professors, researchers,
students
and policy-makers interested in religion and multiculturalism
in
Canada.Lori G. Beaman is Canada Research Chair in the
Contextualization of Religion in a Diverse Canada, director of
the
"Religion and Diversity Project" and a professor in the
Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University
of
Ottawa.
Contributors: Natasha Bakht, James A. Beckford,
Peter Beyer, Gary D. Bouma, Avigail Eisenberg, Solange Lefebvre,
Ole Riis, and Heather Shipley.
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