LEADER 04135nam 22005411 450 001 9910798212603321 005 20200514202323.0 010 $a1-5099-0647-9 010 $a1-5099-0649-5 010 $a1-5099-0648-7 024 7 $a10.5040/9781509906499 035 $a(CKB)3710000000654493 035 $a(EBL)4514065 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4514065 035 $a(OCoLC)936687600 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09259922 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6161092 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000654493 100 $a20160601d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aReligion and the exercise of public authority /$fedited by Benjamin L Berger and Richard Moon 210 1$aOxford ;$aPortland, Oregon :$cHart Publishing,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-5099-2473-6 311 $a1-84946-715-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : religious neutrality and the exercise of public authority -- Richard Moon and Benjamin L Berger -- The meaning and entailment of the religious neutrality of the state : the case of public employees -- Jocelyn Maclure -- Against circumspection : judges, religious symbols, and signs of moral independence -- Benjamin L Berger -- Religious lawyering and legal ethics -- Faisal Bhabha -- Managing and imagining religion in Canada from the top and the bottom : 15 years after -- Paul Bramadat -- God keep our land : the legal ritual of the McKenna-McBride Royal Commission, 1913-16 -- Pamela E Klassen -- In -- visible religion in public institutions : Canadian Muslim public servants -- Ame?lie Barras, Jennifer A Selby, and Lori G Beaman -- The prayer case saga in canada : an expert insider? : perspective on praying in the political and public arenas -- Solange Lefebvre -- Physicians' rights to conscientious objection -- Bruce Ryder -- Conscientious objections by civil servants : the case of marriage commissioners and same-sex civil marriages -- Richard Moon -- A freedom of religion-based argument against religious schools -- Daniel M Weinstock -- "Open house -- portes ouvertes" : classrooms as sites of interfaith interface -- Shauna Van Praagh. 330 8 $aIn 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 606 $aChurch and state$zCanada 606 $aFreedom of religion$zCanada 606 $2Religion & politics 615 0$aChurch and state 615 0$aFreedom of religion 676 $a342.7108/52 702 $aBerger$b Benjamin L.$f1977- 702 $aMoon$b Richard$f1956- 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798212603321 996 $aReligion and the exercise of public authority$93685814 997 $aUNINA