Religious Diversity in Canadian Public Schools

This comprehensive analysis of the legally complex relationship between religion and public schools will compel readers to reconsider the role of law in education.

Dia Dabby is an assistant professor in the Département des sciences juridiques (Department of Legal Studies) at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). She is an active member of the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité et la démocratie (CRIDAQ) and a co-editor of Modération ou extrémisme? Regards critiques sur la loi 21. Her work has also appeared in Studies in Religion, the Supreme Court Law Review, the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, the Dalhousie Law Journal, Religion and Human Rights: An International Journal, and numerous collections.

"A worthwhile read for those interested in religious diversity in public institutions as well as those interested in critical sociological legal methodology and theory—in particular those interested in relational theory or legal pluralism."

W. Y. Alice Chan, Centre for Civic Religious Literacy:

"Dabby presents a rigorous and convincing lesson to prepare and help individuals… for cases related to children and the religious diversity in Canadian schools."

Melanie Adrian, associate professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University:

Religious Diversity in Canadian Public Schools touches on many of the questions that have piqued the public imaginary since multiculturalism was officially enacted in Canada in the early 1980s.

Howard Kislowicz, associate professor, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary:

Dia Dabby’s archival research is to be commended. In using the full court records, not just the reported decisions, she has produced an original and significant book on religion in Canadian schools.