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. Ed(S): Adelman, Howard; Anctil, Pierre - Religion, Culture, and the State: Reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor Report - 9781442642614 - V9781442642614
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Religion, Culture, and the State: Reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor Report

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Description for Religion, Culture, and the State: Reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor Report hardcover. Religion, Culture, and the State addresses reasonable accommodation from legal, political, and anthropological perspectives, with the contributors using the 2008 Bouchard-Taylor Report as their point of departure to contextualize the English and French Canadian experiences of multiculturalism and diversity. Editor(s): Adelman, Howard; Anctil, Pierre. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HRAM2; JPVH4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.

The Canadian principle of reasonable accommodation demands that the cultural majority make certain concessions to the needs of minority groups if these concessions will not cause 'undue hardship.' This principle has caused much debate in Quebec, particularly over issues of language, Muslim head coverings, and religious symbols such as the kirpan (traditional Sikh dagger). In 2007, Quebec Premier Jean Charest commissioned historian and sociologist Gérard Bouchard and philosopher and political scientist Charles Taylor to co-chair a commission that would investigate the limits of reasonable accommodation in that province.
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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442642614
SKU
V9781442642614
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99-1

About . Ed(S): Adelman, Howard; Anctil, Pierre
Howard Adelman is a professor emeritus at York University. Pierre Anctil is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa.

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Religion, Culture, and the State presents a clear and coherent approach to "reasonable accommodation," secularism, and multiethnic diversity in Québec. It represents a major contribution to research in this area, and is significant for its comparative perspective, as reflected in the interesting connections that the contributors make to liberal and multicultural frameworks in France. The socio-historical and intellectual context that ... Read more

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