Exploring Religion and Diversity in Canada
Exploring Religion and Diversity in Canada

Author: Catherine Holtmann

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-06-25

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 3319782320

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This book is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning about the many ways in which religious diversity is manifest in day-to-day life Canada. Each chapter addresses the challenges and opportunities associated with religious diversity in a different realm of social life from families to churches, from education to health care, and from Muslims to atheists. The contributors present key concepts, relevant statistical data and real-life stories from qualitative data. The content of the book is supplemented by links to online learning resources including videos, websites and photo essays.

Religion and Diversity in Canada
Religion and Diversity in Canada

Author: Lori Gail Beaman

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 9004170154

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Canada officially prides itself on being a multicultural nation, welcoming people from all around the world, and enshrining that status in its Charter of Rights and Freedoms as well as in an array of laws and policies that aim to protect citizens from discrimination on various grounds, including race, cultural origin, sexual orientation, and religion. This volume explores the intersection of these diversities, foregrounding religion as the primary focus of analysis. Taking as their point of departure the contested meaning and implications of the term diversity, the various contributions address issues such as the power relations that diversity implies, the cultural context that limits the understanding and practical acceptance of religious diversity, and how Canada compares in these matters to other countries. Taken together the essays therefore elucidate the Canadian case while also having relevance for understanding this critical issue globally.

Religion and Ethnicity in Canada
Religion and Ethnicity in Canada

Author: Paul Bramadat

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2009-10-10

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1442697024

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As the leading book in its field, Religion and Ethnicity in Canada has been embraced by scholars, teachers, students, and policy makers as a breakthrough study of Canadian religio-ethnic diversity and its impact on multiculturalism. A team of established scholars looks at the relationships between religious and ethnic identity in Canada's six largest minority religious communities: Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jews, Muslims and practitioners of Chinese religion. The chapters also highlight the ethnic diversity extant within these traditions in order to offer a more nuanced appreciation of the variety of lived experiences of members of these communities. Together, the contributors develop consistent themes throughout the volume, among them the changing nature of religious practice and ideas, current demographics, racism, and the role of women. Chapters related to the public policy issues of healthcare, education and multiculturalism show how new ethnic and religious diversity are challenging and changing Canadian institutions and society. Comprehensive and insightful, Religion and Ethnicity in Canada makes a unique contribution to the study of world religions in Canada.

Religious Diversity in Canadian Public Schools
Religious Diversity in Canadian Public Schools

Author: Dia Dabby

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2022-02

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780774862370

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This comprehensive analysis of the legally complex relationship between religion and public schools will compel readers to reconsider the role of law in education.

Religion and Canadian Party Politics
Religion and Canadian Party Politics

Author: David Rayside

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2017-06-07

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0774835613

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Religion is usually thought of as inconsequential to contemporary Canadian politics. Religion and Canadian Party Politics takes a hard look at just how much influence faith continues to have in federal, provincial, and territorial political arenas. Drawing on case studies from across the country, this book explores three important axes of religiously based contention in Canada. Early on, there were the denominational distinctions between Catholics and Protestants that shaped party oppositions. Since the 1960s, a newly politicized divide opened between religious conservatives and political reformers. Then from the 1990s on, sporadic controversy has centred on the recognition of non-Christian religious minority rights. Although the extent of partisan engagement with each of these sources of conflict has varied across time and region, this book shows that religion still matters in shaping party politics . This detailed look at the play of religiously based conflict and accommodation in Canada fills a large gap and pulls us back from overly simplified comparisons with the United States. More broadly, this book also compares the role of faith in politics in Canada to that of other Western industrialized societies.

Multiculturalism and Religious Identity
Multiculturalism and Religious Identity

Author: Sonia Sikka

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2014-06-01

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 0773592210

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How, and to what extent, can religion be included within commitments to multiculturalism? Multiculturalism and Religious Identity addresses this question by examining the political recognition and management of religious identity in Canada and India. In multicultural policy, practice, and literature, religion has until recently not been included within broader discussions of multiculturalism, perhaps due to worries of potential for conflict with secularism. This collection undertakes a contemporary analysis of how the Canadian and Indian states each approach religious diversity through social and political policies, as well as how religion and secularism meet both philosophically and politically in contested public space. Although Canada and India have differing political and religious histories - leading to different articulations of multiculturalism, religious diversity, and secularism - both countries share a commitment to ensuring fair treatment for the different religious communities they include. Combining broader theoretical and normative reflections with close case studies, Multiculturalism and Religious Identity leads the way to addressing these timely issues in the Canadian and Indian contexts.

Religion in the Public Sphere
Religion in the Public Sphere

Author: Solange Lefebvre

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1442626305

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The place of religion in the public realm is the subject of frequent and lively debate in the media, among academics and policymakers, and within communities. With this edited collection, Solange Lefebvre and Lori G. Beaman bring together a series of case studies of religious groups and practices from all across Canada that re-examine and question the classic distinction between the public and private spheres. Religion in the Public Sphere explores the public image of religious groups, legal issues relating to “reasonable accommodations,” and the role of religion in public services and institutions like health care and education. Offering a wide range of contributions from religious studies, political science, theology, and law, Religion in the Public Sphere presents emerging new models to explain contemporary relations between religion, civil society, the private sector, family, and the state.

God's Plenty
God's Plenty

Author: William Closson James

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 0773538895

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A complete religious topography of a mid-sized Canadian city in the early twenty-first century, inspired by the Harvard Pluralism Project.

Faith, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States
Faith, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States

Author: David Rayside

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 077482011X

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For decades, agitation by lesbians, gays, and other sexual minorities for political recognition has provoked a heated response among religious activists in both Canada and the United States. In this remarkable comparative study, expert authors explore the tenacity of anti-gay sentiment, as well as the dramatic shifts in public attitudes towards queer groups across all faith communities in both the United States and Canada. They conclude that, despite the ongoing conflict, religious adherence does not invariably entail opposition to the political acknowledgment of queer rights.

The Religions of Canadians
The Religions of Canadians

Author: Jamie S. Scott

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1442605162

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The Religions of Canadians draws on the expert knowledge and personal insights of scholars in history, the social sciences, and the phenomenology of religion to introduce the beliefs and practices of nine religious traditions.