Religion Religion, Politics & State
Reasonable Accommodation
Managing Religious Diversity
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2012
- Category
- Religion, Politics & State, Social Policy, Essays, Minority Studies, Civil Rights
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774822657
- Publish Date
- Sep 2012
- List Price
- $85.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774822763
- Publish Date
- Jul 2013
- List Price
- $32.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774822770
- Publish Date
- Sep 2012
- List Price
- $125.00
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Description
Often when a religious minority challenges mainstream customs, the phrase “reasonable accommodation” is at the centre of the ensuing debate. But what exactly is reasonable accommodation? Does it achieve its goal of integrating the rights of religious minorities with those of mainstream society – or does it emphasize inequality?
Reasonable Accommodation features eight essays that seek to define the meaning of reasonable accommodation within Canada and abroad. These probing explorations touch on current hot-button topics such as women’s right to wear the niqab in public, religious diversity in prisons, and accommodating sexual diversity. Woven throughout are questions and commentary about whether there really is a religious majority in Canada, how the idea of “shared values” obscures debate, and how tolerating religious differences simply isn’t enough to guarantee equality. Reasonable Accommodation provides a much-needed critical assessment of this phrase and theorizes religious diversity and freedom of religion beyond the meaning of “tolerance” as it sometimes implies.
About the author
Lori G. Beaman is Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Religion and Diversity Project. She is also a Canada Research Chair in the Contextualization of Religion in a Diverse Canada.
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