{"id":12025,"date":"2007-06-09T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12025"},"modified":"2023-01-23T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T22:22:07","slug":"the-freedom-of-religion-in-canada-challenges-and-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=12025","title":{"rendered":"The Freedom of Religion in Canada: Challenges and Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Iain T Benson<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"177\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/emoryintllawrev-1.jpg\" alt=\"Emory International Law Review\" class=\"wp-image-12553\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Emory International Law Review<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br>The paper covers a wide scope in an attempt to examine, in the space available, some of the central cultural and constitutional facts that form the background to recent legal decisions that touch on \u201creligious liberty\u201d in Canada. Important, as well, are recent insights from political theorists, particularly those who examine the nature of liberalism. . . This Article will show that in the last decade the Canadian judicial system has heard a series of important cases in which principles were raised that give a truly Canadian perspective to the relationship between church and state, and the person and the community, in ways that are not developed elsewhere. These cases may provide useful grounding to the principles of accommodation of religion in the public sphere and inclusion of religion in the public sphere, and, further, may reduce the bifurcations that obscure issues where they should elucidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Benson IT. <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1654424\">The Freedom of Religion in Canada: Challenges and Opportunities<\/a>. Emory International Law Review. 2007;21(111)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iain T Benson AbstractThe paper covers a wide scope in an attempt to examine, in the space available, some of the central cultural and constitutional facts that form the background to recent legal decisions that touch on \u201creligious liberty\u201d in Canada. 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