Religion, liberty and the jurisdictional limits of law
By: general editors, Iain T. Benson, Barry W. Bussey
Publisher: LexisNexis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780433495628
Subjects: Freedom of religion; Religion and law
Description: "In recent years law and religion scholarship in Canada has grown significantly. This...collection of 18 papers addresses, from a variety of angles, the jurisdiction of law itself and limits of law – an important but often overlooked aspect of settling the boundaries of church and state, religion and law."--
Notes: Includes table of cases.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I.; title: Religion in liberal thought --; title: Should there be a legal presumption in favour of diversity? Some preliminary reflections  -- Iain T. Benson; title: Liberal pluralism and the challenge of religious diversity  -- Peter D. Lauwers; title: Constitutional principles as state territory  -- Paul B. Cliteur -- Part II.; title: Religious freedom of religious organizations --; title: The challenge and promise of religious associations to liberal democratic order  -- John von Heyking; title: The social ontology of religious freedom  -- Víctor M. Muñiz-Fraticelli; title: Religious organizations' right to autonomy and collisions with other fundamental rights : an international human rights law analysis  -- Jeroen Temperman; title: The requirement of religious neutrality : civic action and institutional autonomy  -- Richard Moon -- Part III.; title: Private choices, public consequences --; title: Conceiving freedom of religion in terms of obedience to conscience  -- Ian Leigh; title: Should conscience be a proxy for religion in some cases?  -- Richard Haigh; title: When law, religion and family meet : private choices, religious neutrality and the liberal state  -- Anat Scolnicov -- Part IV.; title: The clash of rights --; title: Judicial method on rights conflicts in the context of religious identity  -- Dwight Newman; title: Competing rights under the Canadian Charter : are some issues more equal than others?  -- Janet Epp Buckingham; title: Freedom of religion, competing rights and spatial priority presumptions  -- Alvin A.J. Esau; title: Religion and the clash of rights in the United Kingdom  -- Frank Cranmer -- Part V.; title: Equality and religious freedom --; title: Resolving equality uncertainty : adverse-effects claims and conflicts between equality-seeking claimants  -- Eugene Meehan, Marie-France Major and Thomas Slade; title: The Charter is not a blueprint for moral conformity -- Barry W. Bussey.