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Book SynopsisReligion, Culture, and the State addresses reasonable accommodation from legal, political, and anthropological perspectives, with the contributors using the 2008 Bouchard-Taylor Report as their point of departure to contextualize the English and French Canadian experiences of multiculturalism and diversity.
Trade ReviewReligion, Culture, and the State presents a clear and coherent approach to "reasonable accommodation," secularism, and multiethnic diversity in Quebec. It represents a major contribution to research in this area, and is significant for its comparative perspective, as reflected in the interesting connections that the contributors make to liberal and multicultural frameworks in France. The socio-historical and intellectual context that Howard Adelman and Pierre Anctil provide for these debates also makes Religion, Culture, and the State worthwhile reading. -- Donna Patrick, Department of Sociology and Anthropology and School of Canadian Studies, Carleton University
Table of ContentsIntroduction by Pierre Anctil (University of Ottawa) * Reasonable Accommodation in the Context of Canadian Law: A Mechanism for Handling Diversity or a Source of Tension by Pierre Anctil * Monoculturalism versus Interculturalism in a Multicultural World: France and Qu bec by Howard Adelman (York University) * A Historical Perspective on BT and the Jewish Community of Quebec by Ira Robinson (Concordia) *"Qui est nous?": Some Answers from the Bouchard-Taylor Commission's Archive by Bina Toledo Freiwald (Concordia) * Strict and Open Secularism and Neutrality by Jose Woehrling (Universite de Montreal) * Conclusion: Religion, Culture and State by Howard Adelman Bibliography Contributors Index
