Although 19.3 million people reported a Christian affiliation in the 2021 Canadian census (representing just over half of the Canadian…
Competing narratives of the “us” in “our culture and heritage”
Canada
The discipline of Radio Mind
Pamela Klassen skillfully leads readers to consider important underlying and interconnected concerns throughout The Story of Radio Mind, including occasions…
In the spirit of reconciliation
Pamela Klassen offers her subtle and judicious book to us “in the spirit” of the call issued in the 2015…
Niqab, sunglasses, and the sincerity of belief
Haunted by its Roman Catholic background and still horrorstruck by last year’s mosque shooting, Québec, the French-speaking province of Canada,…
Ekklesia: An introduction
Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State takes the tenacious rubric of “church and state” and examines it through a…
A tale of two burdens
In his landmark essay, Nomos and Narrative, the late legal scholar Robert Cover wrote about the jurispathic function of…
Keeping up with “culture”
Benjamin Berger’s Law’s Religion: Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism is a welcome addition to the vibrantly interdisciplinary scholarship on…
Another Law’s Religion
I cannot help but see a pun in the title of Benjamin Berger's book, Law’s Religion: Religious Difference and the…
Making up people
Several decades ago in an essay entitled “Making Up People,” the Canadian philosopher Ian Hacking wrote that, “if new modes…
Law as religion
Ben Berger’s book Law’s Religion: Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism is a work of great insight. I found…