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Book SynopsisThe Challenges of a Secular Quebec opens up the debates that gave rise to a controversial law on state religious neutrality, taking an open-minded look at how secularism is understood and how it has imposed itself in the Quebec social space.
Table of ContentsForeword / Roberto Perin
Introduction / Lucia Ferretti and François Rocher
Part 1: Things in Perspective
1 Putting Things in Perspective: The Many Varieties of Secularism / François Rocher
2 Beyond Defending Religious Symbols: The Desire to Put Quebec In Its Place / Lucia Ferretti
Part 2: Historical and Sociological Perspectives
3 Quebec: Under the Rule of its Two Cities / Marc Chevrier
4 The Difficult Search for a Quebec Model of Laicity / Micheline Labelle
5 Some Muslim Quebec Women and Men Are in Favour of Bill 21 / Yasmina Chouakri
Part 3: Legal Perspectives
6 The Laicity of the State: The Cornerstone of Individual Civil and Political Rights / Julie Latour
7 Arguments Relating to the Unconstitutionality of the Act Respecting the Laicity of the State: A Massive Rebuttal / Daniel Turp
8 Rights Guaranteed Equally to Both Sexes, the Notwithstanding Clause, and the Act Respecting the Laicity of the State: Overview and Contribution to the Debate from a Quebec Perspective / Guillaume Rousseau
9 Laicity in the Light of Institutional Dialogue in Canada / Patrick Taillon
Part 4: Educational Perspectives
10 The Medium is the Message: There’s No Point Cluttering Educational Communication / Charles-Étienne Gill
11 Thinking About Laicity Today with Ferdinand Buisson / Normand Baillargeon
12 Secularism and the Symbolic: The Quebec School as a Place of Immanent Knowledge / Paul Sabourin
Conclusion: The Fate Of Bill 21 in the Courts and in Public Opinion in English Canada / Lucia Ferretti and François Rocher
List of Contributors; Index
