Religion and the Secular State in Canada
RELIGION AND THE SECULAR STATE: NATIONAL REPORTS, p. 183, Javier Martinez-Torron & W. Cole Durham, eds., International Center for Law and Religious Studies, 2010
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Religion and the Secular State in Canada
Religion and the Secular State in Canada
Date Written: 2010
Abstract
This article reflects the National Report from Canada on Religion and the Secular State prepared by the co-authors for the XVIIIth International Congress of Comparative Law that took place in Washington, D.C., in July 2010. This Report provides a snapshot of the state of the law with respect to religion in Canada from a multitude of perspectives, touching on both its private law and public law dimensions, against the backdrop of the diverse and changing social and religious composition of Canada. The theoretical and constitutional frameworks, as well as important questions of the definition of secularity and the need for reasonable accommodation, are canvassed. Particular applications of religion and the secular state in the arenas of education, marriage and divorce, contracts, religious symbols and hate speech are also discussed.
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