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.

Introduction by Pierre Anctil (University of Ottawa)

1. Reasonable Accommodation in the Context of Canadian Law: A Mechanism for Handling Diversity or a Source of Tension by Pierre Anctil
2. Monoculturalism versus Interculturalism in a Multicultural World: France and Québec by Howard Adelman (York University)
3. A Historical Perspective on BT and the Jewish Community of Québec by Ira Robinson (Concordia)
4. "Qui est nous?": Some Answers from the Bouchard-Taylor Commission's Archive by Bina Toledo Freiwald (Concordia)
5. Strict and Open Secularism and Neutrality by José Woehrling (Université de Montréal)
6. Conclusion: Religion, Culture and State by Howard Adelman

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Contributors
Index

Edited by Howard Adelman and Pierre Anctil