Religion and the Exercise of Public Authority

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5099-2473-8
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

In the burgeoning literature on law and religion, scholarly attention has tended to focus on broad questions concerning the scope of religious freedom, the nature of toleration and the meaning of secularism. An under-examined issue is how religion figures in the decisions, actions and experiences of those charged with performing public duties. This point of contact between religion and public authority has generated a range of legal and political controversies around issues such as the wearing of religious symbols by public officials, prayer at municipal government meetings, religious education and conscientious objection by public servants.

Authored by scholars from a variety of disciplines, the chapters in this volume provide insight into these and other issues. Yet the volume also provides an entry point into a deeper examination of the concepts that are often used to organise and manage religious diversity, notably state neutrality. By examining the exercise of public authority by individuals who are religiously committed - or who, in the discharge of their public responsibilities, must account for those who are - this volume exposes the assumptions about legal and political life that underlie the concept of state neutrality and reveals its limits as a governing ideal.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berger, Benjamin L

Moon, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Religious Neutrality and the Exercise of Public Authority

Richard Moon and Benjamin L Berger
1. The Meaning and Entailment of the Religious Neutrality of the State: The Case of Public Employees

Jocelyn Maclure
2. Against Circumspection: Judges, Religious Symbols, and Signs of Moral Independence

Benjamin L Berger
3. Religious Lawyering and Legal Ethics

Faisal Bhabha
4. Managing and Imagining Religion in Canada from the Top and the Bottom: 15 Years After

Paul Bramadat
5. God Keep Our Land: The Legal Ritual of the McKenna-McBride Royal Commission, 1913-16

Pamela E Klassen
6. In/Visible Religion in Public Institutions: Canadian Muslim Public Servants

Amélie Barras, Jennifer A Selby and Lori G Beaman
7. The Prayer Case Saga in Canada: An 'Expert Insider' Perspective on Praying in the Political and Public Arenas

Solange Lefebvre
8. Physicians' Rights to Conscientious Objection

Bruce Ryder
9. Conscientious Objections by Civil Servants: The Case of Marriage Commissioners and Same-Sex Civil Marriages

Richard Moon
10. A Freedom of Religion-Based Argument for the Regulation of Religious Schools

Daniel M Weinstock
11. 'Open House'/'Portes Ouvertes': Classrooms as Sites of Interfaith Interface

Shauna Van Praagh

Über Autor(innen)

Moon, Richard
Richard Moon is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor.

Berger, Benjamin L
Benjamin L Berger is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.

Benjamin L Berger is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.
Richard Moon is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor.