On November 7th, 2013, on the heels of a heated public debate about the role of religion in public life,…
Lori G. Beaman
Lori G. Beaman is Canada Research Chair in the Contextualization of Religion in a Diverse Canada and Full Professor of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. Key publications include Defining Harm: Religious Freedom and the Limits of the Law (UBC Press, 2008), the co-edited, with Peter Beyer, Religion and Diversity in Canada (Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2008), “Is Religious Freedom Impossible in Canada?,” Law, Culture, and the Humanities (2010), and “‘It was all slightly unreal’: What‟s Wrong with Tolerance and Accommodation in the Adjudication of Religious Freedom?,” Canadian Journal of Women and Law (2010).
Beyond establishment
Religious freedom and religious establishment have come to mean many things to many people. This is, in part, because of…