THE MEANING OF ?FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE? IN THE CANADIAN CHARTER:: A POLYVOCAL CULTURAL ANALYSIS - Softcover

MANLEY-CASIMIR, MICHAEL

Softcover

ISBN 10: 383834748X ISBN 13: 9783838347486

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

This essay examines the meaning of freedom of conscience and religion in s. 2 (a) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Set within a polyvocal cultural heuristic, the essay uses the voices of dramatists, historians, judges, legal theorists and ordinary people to illustrate and document the development and evolution of the meaning of conscience. In particular, the essay focuses on whether ?freedom of conscience and religion? is one integrated right or whether the notions of ?conscience? and ?religion? are separable, such that it is possible to argue a non-religious, secular claim to conscience on constitutional grounds.

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About the Author

Michael Manley-Casimir, PhD, is a professor of education and director of the Tecumseh Centre for Aboriginal Research and Education at Brock University. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago. Prior to his appointment as dean of education at Brock in 1998, he spent 24 years in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University in a variety of academic and administrative roles.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 383834748X
• ISBN 13: 9783838347486
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124