Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART 1 / Things in Perspective
6. 1 Putting Things in Perspective: The Many Varieties of Secularism 19
7. 2 Beyond Defending Religious Symbols: The Desire to Put Quebec in Its Place 40
8. PART 2 / Historical and Sociological Perspectives
9. 3 Quebec: Under the Rule of Its Two Cities 71
10. 4 The Difficult Search for a Quebec Model of Laicity 105
11. 5 Some Muslim Quebec Women and Men Are in Favour of Bill 21 127
12. PART 3 / Legal Perspectives
13. 6 The Laicity of the State: The Cornerstone of Individual Civil and Political Rights 139
14. 7 Arguments Relating to the Unconstitutionality of the Act Respecting the Laicity of the State: A Massive Rebuttal 163
15. 8 Rights Guaranteed Equally to Both Sexes, the Notwithstanding Clause, and the Act Respecting the Laicity of the State: Overview and Contribution to the Debate from a Quebec Perspective 185
16. 9 Laicity in the Light of Institutional Dialogue in Canada 206
17. PART 4 / Educational Perspectives
18. 10 The Medium Is the Message: There’s No Point Cluttering Educational Communication 237
19. 11 Thinking About Laicity Today with Ferdinand Buisson 245
20. 12 Secularism and the Symbolic: The Quebec School as a Place of Immanent Knowledge 263
21. Conclusion: The Fate of Bill 21 in the Courts and in Public Opinion in English Canada 276
22. List of Contributors 293
23. Index 298