Mapping the Legal Boundaries of Belonging

Religion and Multiculturalism from Israel to Canada

By: Rene Provost (Editor)

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Hardcover | 12 February 2015

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For several decades, culture played a central role in challenging the liberal tradition. More recently however, religion has re-emerged as one of the central challenges facing Western liberal societies' conception of multiculturalism. Mapping the Legal Boundaries of Belonging explores the complex relationship between religion and multiculturalism and the role of the state and law in the creation of boundaries.

The intersection between religion, nationalism and other vectors of difference in Canada and Israel offer an ideal laboratory in which to examine multiculturalism in particular and the governance of diversity in general. The contributors to this volume investigate concepts of religious difference and diversity and the ways in which these two states and legal systems understand and respond to them. As a consequence of a purportedly secular human rights perspective, they show, state laws may appear to define religious identity in a way that contradicts the definition found within a particular religion. Both state and religion make the same mistake if they take a court decision that emphasizes individual belief and practice as effecting a direct modification of a religious norm: the court lacks the power to change the authoritative internal definition of who belongs to a particular faith. Similarly, in the pursuit of a particular model of social diversity, the state may adopt policies
that imply a particular private/public distinction foreign to some religious traditions.

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"The current state of multiculturalism and its future is an enormously important and difficult topic. This fascinating collection provides new insights through its imaginative comparison of Canada, specifically Quebec, and Israel. Tacking back and forth between these two countries, the book opens up in provocative ways the links between religion, secularism, human rights, and the possibilities of a post-multicultural society." --Sally Engle Merry, Professor of Anthropology, Law, and Society, New York University "This set of essays has much to recommend it. In general, the essays are clearly written and provide numerous insights into the tensions that come with mapping various boundaries (secular/religious; multireligious; liberal state/illiberal religious practice) in plural, liberal democracies."--Journal of Church and State

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