Janet Epp Buckingham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3071911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Epp Buckingham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet Epp |
| FAMILY NAME | Buckingham |
| SIGNATURE | BUCKINGHAM J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity Western University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Wall v Judicial Committee of the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses
Administrative law – Religious institutions – Expansion of judicial review to churches if property rights impacted by church decision – Jehovah’s Witness congregation expelling realtor who subsequently lost half his business as Jehovah’s Witnesses refused to do business with him – Whether Court can review church decision because of impact on business if church did not follow rules of natural justice The Alberta Court of Appeal ruled that the cour…
Ruling Restricts Government Funding for Religious Schools
Justice DH Layh has ruled in a landmark case, Good Spirit School Division No 204 v Christ the Teacher Roman Catholic Separate School Division No 212,1 that government funding for Roman Catholic schools cannot extend to fund non-Catholic students at those schools. The case is certain to be appealed. Meantime the government of Saskatchewan has promised to use the controversial ‘notwithstanding clause’ to override this ruling and fund all students a…
The Social Equality of Religion or Belief
This edited collection originated from a set of conference presentations on the theme of “equality of religion or belief” (p. xiii). It is therefore a very diverse collection of papers, covering the status of a variety of religious minorities in the United Kingdom as well as issues from several other countries. The editor’s chapter is quite lengthy but the contributed chapters are quite short, each being about fifteen pages. Several of these chap…
Catholic Schools Can Be Catholic
Loyola High School is a private Jesuit high school for boys, which was founded in 1848 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Until the 1990s, schools in Quebec were confessional schools, either Protestant or Roman Catholic. When the schools were deconfessionalized through a constitutional amendment in 1997, the religious education component of the curriculum was replaced by a neutral Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) curriculum.1 Loyola High School appli…
Loyola High School v Quebec (Attorney General)
Constitutional law – Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms – Freedom of religion – Schools – Private Roman Catholic school requesting exemption from teaching secular Ethics and Religious Culture Course and proposing equivalent course from perspective of Catholic belief – Minister of Education refusing exemption on grounds proposal failing to meet statutory objectives of recognition of others, pursuit of common good, openness to human rights, an…
Fighting Over God
From before Confederation to the present day, religion has been one of the most contentious issues in Canadian public life. In Fighting over God, Janet Buckingham surveys a vast array of religious conflicts, exploring both their political aspects and the court cases that were part of their resolution. While topics such as the Manitoba Schools Crisis and debates about Sunday shopping are familiar territory, Buckingham focuses on lesser-known confl…
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Fighting Over God
From before Confederation to the present day, religion has been one of the most contentious issues in Canadian public life. In Fighting over God, Janet Buckingham surveys a vast array of religious conflicts, exploring both their political aspects and the court cases that were part of their resolution. While topics such as the Manitoba Schools Crisis and debates about Sunday shopping are familiar territory, Buckingham focuses on lesser-known confl…
Catholic Schools Can Be Catholic
Loyola High School is a private Jesuit high school for boys, which was founded in 1848 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Until the 1990s, schools in Quebec were confessional schools, either Protestant or Roman Catholic. When the schools were deconfessionalized through a constitutional amendment in 1997, the religious education component of the curriculum was replaced by a neutral Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) curriculum.1 Loyola High School appli…
Loyola High School v Quebec (Attorney General)
Constitutional law – Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms – Freedom of religion – Schools – Private Roman Catholic school requesting exemption from teaching secular Ethics and Religious Culture Course and proposing equivalent course from perspective of Catholic belief – Minister of Education refusing exemption on grounds proposal failing to meet statutory objectives of recognition of others, pursuit of common good, openness to human rights, an…
Wall v Judicial Committee of the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses
Administrative law – Religious institutions – Expansion of judicial review to churches if property rights impacted by church decision – Jehovah’s Witness congregation expelling realtor who subsequently lost half his business as Jehovah’s Witnesses refused to do business with him – Whether Court can review church decision because of impact on business if church did not follow rules of natural justice The Alberta Court of Appeal ruled that the cour…
Ruling Restricts Government Funding for Religious Schools
Justice DH Layh has ruled in a landmark case, Good Spirit School Division No 204 v Christ the Teacher Roman Catholic Separate School Division No 212,1 that government funding for Roman Catholic schools cannot extend to fund non-Catholic students at those schools. The case is certain to be appealed. Meantime the government of Saskatchewan has promised to use the controversial ‘notwithstanding clause’ to override this ruling and fund all students a…
The Social Equality of Religion or Belief
This edited collection originated from a set of conference presentations on the theme of “equality of religion or belief” (p. xiii). It is therefore a very diverse collection of papers, covering the status of a variety of religious minorities in the United Kingdom as well as issues from several other countries. The editor’s chapter is quite lengthy but the contributed chapters are quite short, each being about fifteen pages. Several of these chap…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies (3 works) · Appeal (2 works) · Charter (2 works) · Constitution (2 works) · Freedom of Religion (2 works) · Human rights (2 works)