L G Beaman
Biographic Data
| ID | 32216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L G Beaman |
| GIVEN NAMES | L G |
| FAMILY NAME | Beaman |
| SIGNATURE | BEAMAN L G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0424-8586 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 75 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 205 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 75 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Producing Marriage: The Decentering of Christian Heritage in Western Countries
This article builds on the empirical findings of our research on legal debates surrounding same-sex marriage to explore the discursive reconfigurations of marriage amid the declining centrality of Christianity and increasing social pluralism. Drawing on debates in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Norway, and the United States, we analyse the discursive operations unfolding within legal and institutional arenas where controversies ov…
Lifestances in Place: Exploring (Non)Religion in Community Gardens
Drawing from interviews with 134 community garden members in eight countries, this article explores how individuals, both religious and nonreligious, understand and enact their moral relationships with other terrestrials at their community gardens. It frames the community garden as a place constituted by human and more-than-human relationships that demonstrate how people make sense of the world from where they are situated, with and without refer…
The Everyday Transnational Practices of Migrant Youth: A Transcultural Perspective
Transnationalism is part of broader globalisation processes and raises important questions in relation to migration, identity, multiculturalism and the very nation-state itself. The focus of this paper is on the transnational practices of migrant youth in three Western, multicultural cities. The transnational engagements of migrant youth often engender cultural, social and political connections between both countries of origin and countries of re…
Appropriating the “Soul”: Evolving Understandings in Canada and the United States
Noting a disconnect in the percentage of Canadians and Americans who believe in a soul (75.37% and 84%, respectively) versus those who believe in an afterlife (47.64% and 57.04%), we explore the variables that are correlated with soul belief to better understand how people from these two countries may be conceptualizing the soul. Based on quota samples of just over 1000 individuals from each country, we find that religiosity is not a consistent p…
Elliot Hanowski. Towards a Godless Dominion: Unbelief in Interwar Canada
Navigating racist encounters in the workplace: Experiences of young people in Birmingham, Melbourne and Toronto
Perceptions of Diversity: Multicultural Values” and Living Well Together
Situated in the institutional support for Canadian multiculturalism and the academic tensions over the alleged decline of multiculturalism, this paper considers the use of multiculturalism and its associated values in everyday life. In the Canadian context, there has been an expansion of multiculturalism beyond “Charter values” towards “multicultural values” which shapes social relations and informs the ways that some Canadians see themselves, th…
Multicultural realities: The everyday experiences of migrant youth in Melbourne, Toronto and Birmingham
Drawing on empirical data from Australia, Canada, and England, this paper investigates how migrant youth engage with multiculturalism through the lens of transcultural capital. Employing a comparative framework, we examine how these young individuals interpret, experience, and mobilise overlapping multicultural discourses in their everyday lives. By centring the lived experiences of migrant youth, we shift the analytical focus from abstract ideal…
Mapping a research-advocacy-policy agenda on human rights and albinism: A mixed methods project
The lived experience of albinism is profoundly shaped by the social determinants of health (SDOH). Threats to the security and well-being of persons with albinism should be viewed through a human rights lens that encompasses the explanatory frameworks at play
Albert Piette and lived (non-)religion: Conceptual and methodological considerations
This article considers how the work of Albert Piette can enhance a sociological understanding of religion as lived in everyday life. Although Piette is critical of sociologists in La Religion de près (1999), his work resonates with scholarship on 'lived religion' by contemporary sociologists of religion. This article locates points of overlap and divergence between Piette and scholars of lived religion, and then turns its attention towards the em…
Nonreligious Afterlife: Emerging Understandings of Death and Dying
Death Cafés are informal events that bring people together for conversations about death and related issues. These events connect strangers from across a range of backgrounds, including healthcare workers, hospice volunteers, and funeral directors, among others. Based on an analysis of focus groups and interviews with Death Café attendees, this paper explores how participants construct and express conceptions of the process of dying and what happ…
(Non)religion, spirituality, and the multispecies turn
Religion to culture: Who is the 'Us
In this paper I focus on designations of 'our culture and heritage' that defend practices and symbols of religious majorities. I consider the entanglement of nationalist narratives, secularity and the 'us' in the claims of social actors and public discussions about culture and heritage. What is understood as being religious and what is culture/heritage is dependent on the social actors involved, their position in society and the interpretive fram…
Toward equality: Including non-human animals in studies of lived religion and nonreligion
This article explores how sociologists of religion can respond to 'the animal turn' in studies of lived religion and nonreligion. We begin by considering how sociology has neglected the place of non-human animals and the 'more than human' in social life. We then turn to the sociology of religion, where animals have often been devalued or ignored as irrelevant to understanding religion in society. We argue that it is necessary to consider the ways…
Empathy Across Difference: Migrant Youth and Transcultural Capital
In this article, we explore the diversity, histories, and social experiences of migrant youth in Melbourne and Toronto and how they negotiate difference and otherness in their everyday lives. By moving away from the tensions and problems that have often been associated with migration and diversity, we explore how migrant youth’s engagement with multiple cultural systems does in fact engender empathy as a valuable form of transcultural capital. As…
LGBTQ+ non-discrimination and religious freedom in the context of government-funded faith-based education, social welfare, health care, and aged care
Anti-discrimination laws around the world have explicitly protected LGBTQ+ people from discrimination with various levels of exceptions for religion. Some conservative religious organisations in Australia are advocating to be allowed to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people in certain organisations they manage. The political debate in Australia has focused on religiously affiliated organisations that provide services in education, social welfare, he…
Religious diversity, legislation, and Christian privilege
This article examines the role of legal frameworks and everyday interaction in the negotiation of religious diversity in Victoria, Australia. We argue that both formal legal frameworks and everyday interactions are significant in encouraging the respectful negotiation of religious difference. Experiences of historical privilege and visibility impact how religious people and groups experience and understand these processes. Or, put another way, th…
Shifting Wrongs to Rights: Lessons in Human Rights from the Situation of Mothers Impacted by Albinism in Africa
Debates about legitimizing human rights in Africa have centred on making universal human rights principles relevant to local social and cultural contexts. Localizing human rights norms requires seeing human rights in terms of relevance to specific situations rather than as the application of abstract principles. In this paper, scholars and advocates analyse the challenges in the practice of human rights, with a focus on mothers impacted by albini…
Religious anti-discrimination legislation and the negotiation of difference in Victoria, Australia
This article examines the role of anti-discrimination legislation in the negotiation of religious difference in the Australian state of Victoria. We argue for the importance of a relational conceptualisation of the negotiation of religious diversity that draws on concepts of etiquette and limitations, deep equality, and substantive equality. The Victorian legislation allows the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) to ‘mediate’ the r…
Living Well Together: Nonreligion in the Context of Religious Diversity
This paper considers the study of nonreligion as a vital component of the discussion about “how to live well together” in the “new diversity.” Our specific interest concerning the notion of the “new diversity” is that of nonreligion. This paper therefore focuses on the intersection of law and nonreligion, in the areas of health, education, migration, and the environment. We argue that a continued shift away from a majoritarian Christian society i…
Reclaiming Enchantment: The Transformational Possibilities of Immanence
The notion of enchantment has been largely imagined as relating to religion, broadly defined, including magic, sorcery, and the transcendental. The idea that the world has largely become disenchanted has been associated with science, modernity, and rationality, among other things. Along with others such as William E. Connolly, Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm, and Jane Bennett, I challenge the dominant configuration and narrative of (dis)enchantment. Bui…
Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?, by Candy GUNTHER BROWN
Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?, by CANDY GUNTHER BROWN Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion? by CANDY GUNTHER BROWN. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019, 456 pp.; $100.00 (hardcover), $34.95 (paperback). Lori G Beaman Lori G Beaman University of Ottawa, Canada Search for other works by …
Our Culture, Our Heritage, Our Values: Whose Culture, Whose Heritage, Whose Values
This article reflects on the question of how culture and religion enter legal cases and public debates about the place of majoritarian religious symbols in diverse societies that have some democratic will to inclusion. In the context of the new diversity, the article considers how the articulation of “our culture and heritage” as a strategy for preserving “formerly” religious symbols and practices in public spaces excludes particular groups from …
Introduction: Celebrating 50 Years
Prayer as Transgression?: The Social Relations of Prayer in Healthcare Settings
Practices from Everyday Life
This chapter assesses specific values and strategies key to the production of deep equality. Within a broad framework in which cooperation, similarity, and contaminated diversity define the interactions that typify deep equality, individuals and groups deploy a number of values or beliefs. These values include respect, generosity, neighbourliness, forgiveness, caring and protectiveness, compassion and even love, and they are worked out and manife…
The will to religion: Obligatory religious citizenship
This article takes up the problematic of the 'new normal' and its necessary twin, the 'will to religion'. The notion of the 'new normal' describes the shift to the persistent presence, indeed requirement, for religious assessment in all manner of public and institutional life. The idea of the will to religion reflects a broadly Foucauldian perspective on the care of the self and the requirement to confess-in this instance to confess one's belongi…
Molly Mormons, Mormon Feminists and Moderates: Religious Diversity and the Latter Day Saints Church
Based on data from life history interviews with 28 Latter Day Saints women, this paper considers the process of boundary negotiation on two key sites. First, how do Mormon women maintain their autonomy and agency in the context of institutionalized patriarchy. Secondly, how do women make sense of church prescriptions on male authority both within the family and in the church hierarchy. The study reveals that LDS women are not monolithic in their …
The Myth of Pluralism, Diversity, and Vigor: The Constitutional Privilege of Protestantism in the United States and Canada
Faith in Numbers: Can we Trust Quantitative Data on Religious Affiliation and Religious Freedom
In this essay we attempt to do four things. First, we discuss the appeal of quantitative data generally and the particular salience of the Pew Research Center data on religious identification and religious restrictions. Second, we examine Pew’s data on religious identification. Third, we examine Pew’s data on religious restrictions. Fourth, we provide some recommendations for diplomats and other international affairs practitioners as they engage …
"Re-posing the "Muslim Question
It was all slightly unreal”: What's Wrong with Tolerance and Accommodation in the Adjudication of Religious Freedom
Dans le présent article, l'auteure soutient que R. c. N.S. fournit l'occasion de voir comment les concepts de tolérance et d'accommodement peuvent miner tout sens profond et fondamental de l'égalité. De tels concepts sont très nuisibles parce que les relations de pouvoir qu'ils entretiennent sont fondées sur l'inégalité. Ils invoquent un privilège colonial selon lequel « nous » nous occuperons de « vous ». Le vocabulaire de l'accommodement raison…
LGBTQ+ non-discrimination and religious freedom in the context of government-funded faith-based education, social welfare, health care, and aged care
Anti-discrimination laws around the world have explicitly protected LGBTQ+ people from discrimination with various levels of exceptions for religion. Some conservative religious organisations in Australia are advocating to be allowed to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people in certain organisations they manage. The political debate in Australia has focused on religiously affiliated organisations that provide services in education, social welfare, he…
Dimensions of Diversity: Toward a More Complex Conceptualization
The article assesses the complexity of religious diversity through a presentation of results from the Religion and Diversity Project, a seven-year project conducted between 2010 and 2017 and centred at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Analyzing five dimensions of diversity-the religions, lived, strength, institutional and forms dimensions-it demonstrates how results from the project support the thesis that religious diversity itself is changing …
Social Theory and Religion
Aboriginal Spirituality and the Legal Construction of Freedom of Religion
Journal Article Aboriginal Spirituality and the Legal Construction of Freedom of Religion Get access Lori G. Beaman Lori G. Beaman associate professor of sociology University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 44, Issue 1, Winter 2002, Pages 135–149, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/44.1.135 Published: 01 January 2002
Charismatic Christianity: Sociological Perspectives
Religious Diversity in Australia: Rethinking Social Cohesion
This paper argues for a reconsideration of social cohesion as an analytical concept and a policy goal in response to increasing levels of religious diversity in contemporary Australia. In recent decades, Australian has seen a revitalization of religion, increasing numbers of those who do not identify with a religion (the "nones"), and the growth of religious minorities, including Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sikhism. These changes are often und…
Le Terroriste, l'Homme éclairé et le Patriarche: Les figures qui hantent le quotidien des musulmanes
Les personnes de confession musulmane en général et les femmes musulmanes en particulier - plus encore celles d'entre elles installées en Occident -, se trouvent face à une situation délicate : elles sont quotidiennement confrontées à des figures hégémoniques. Dans cet article, nous examinons comment ces figures affectent la vie de nos participantes musulmanes canadiennes, et comment ces mêmes figures délimitent, dans une certaine mesure, les dis…
Living Together v. Living Well Together: A Normative Examination of the SAS Case
The European Court of Human Rights decision in SAS from France illustrates how a policy and national mantra that ostensibly aims to enhance inclusiveness, ‘living together’, is legally deployed in a manner that may have the opposite effect. In essence, despite acknowledging the sincerity of SAS’s religious practice of wearing the niqab, and her agency in making the decision to do so, the Court focuses on radicalism and women’s oppression amongst …
The Burqa Affair across Europe: Between Public and Private Space
Contents: Introduction, Alessandro Ferrari and Sabrina Pastorelli In praise of pragmatism, Silvio Ferrari Burqa and Islam, Roberta Aluffi Beck-Peccoz Burqa, niqab and women's rights, Letizia Mancini A besieged right: religious freedom and the Italian war on the burqa and the niqab, Alessandro Ferrari The burqa affair in France, Anne Fornerod Legal and social issues concerning the wearing of the burqa and other head coverings in the United Kingdom…
Our Culture, Our Heritage, Our Values: Whose Culture, Whose Heritage, Whose Values
This article reflects on the question of how culture and religion enter legal cases and public debates about the place of majoritarian religious symbols in diverse societies that have some democratic will to inclusion. In the context of the new diversity, the article considers how the articulation of “our culture and heritage” as a strategy for preserving “formerly” religious symbols and practices in public spaces excludes particular groups from …
Rethinking Canadian Discourses of “Reasonable Accommodation”
This article maps the repercussions of the use of reasonable accommodation, a recent framework referenced inside and outside Canadian courtrooms to respond to religiously framed differences. Drawing on three cases from Ontario and Quebec, we trace how the notion of reasonable accommodation—now invoked by the media and in public discourse—has moved beyond its initial legal moorings. After outlining the cases, we critique the framework with attenti…
Religious Diversity in the Public Sphere: The Canadian Case
This paper analyzes the contours of religious and nonreligious diversity in the Canadian public sphere. The ever-changing (non)religious landscape offers an opportunity to consider the flow of ideas from this new diversity to responses and choices at the individual, group, and state levels to inclusion and exclusion. The paper first begins with a descriptive approach to religious diversity, identifying the normatively-charged nature inherent to m…
Overdressed and underexposed or underdressed and overexposed
Judges and public policy makers have transmitted conflicting messages in relation to women’s bodies and have made normative judgements about how women are to appear in public. Women who have been judged to be wearing too much are called to undress as they are seen as interfering with the rights of others or being oppressed. Women judged to be wearing too little are urged to clothe themselves to avoid being seen as inviting sexual assault or dress…
Is Religious Freedom Impossible in Canada
The idea of religious freedom is not new in Canadian law or wider public discourse, although it has taken on a life of its own in the post- Charter era (1982 onward) and certainly in the last several years. As the courts wade more fully into the swirling abyss that is religion they find themselves struggling with the issues that preoccupy scholars of religion (and for which they have found no conclusive answer): what is “religion” and how can it …
Nonreligious Afterlife: Emerging Understandings of Death and Dying
Death Cafés are informal events that bring people together for conversations about death and related issues. These events connect strangers from across a range of backgrounds, including healthcare workers, hospice volunteers, and funeral directors, among others. Based on an analysis of focus groups and interviews with Death Café attendees, this paper explores how participants construct and express conceptions of the process of dying and what happ…
Religious diversity, legislation, and Christian privilege
This article examines the role of legal frameworks and everyday interaction in the negotiation of religious diversity in Victoria, Australia. We argue that both formal legal frameworks and everyday interactions are significant in encouraging the respectful negotiation of religious difference. Experiences of historical privilege and visibility impact how religious people and groups experience and understand these processes. Or, put another way, th…
Transcendence/religion to immanence/nonreligion in assisted dying
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the ways in which the Supreme Court of Canada has shifted away from transcendent/religious to nonreligious conceptualizations of assisted dying. Design/methodology/approach A discourse analysis of a Supreme Court of Canada case on assisted dying and the facta of the 26 associated interveners. Findings The research points to a shift away from religious to nonreligious understandings in the …
Dans leur propre intérêt: La Charte des valeurs québécoises, ou du danger de la religion pour les femmes
Au cours des dix dernières années, plusieurs rapports et débats publics ont exposé clairement la relation entre la laïcité et l'égalité entre les femmes et les hommes. Dans de nombreux cas, l'égalité hommes-femmes ne semble être envisagée que dans un contexte laïque. Les récents débats publics sur la religion et la diversité au Québec illustrent bien la manière dont laïcité et égalité des femmes sont mises en parallèle. Dans cet article, nous exa…
Women's Defences: Contextualizing Dilemmas of Difference and Power
This paper examines theoretical and practical problems surrounding the use of women's defences such as Battered Woman's Syndrome, Premenstrual Syndrome and Postpartum Depression. A framework for deconstructing women's defences which exposes power relationships preserved by legal discourse is offered. The central argument presented is that a contextual examination which links practice to theory reveals that women's defences are not necessarily har…
Postmodernity, Sociology and Religion
Journal Article Postmodernity, Sociology and Religion, by Kieran Flanagan and Peter C. Jupp, (eds.). New York: St. Martin's Press. 1996, 224 pp. $59.95 Get access Lori Beaman Lori Beaman University of Lethbridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 59, Issue 1, Spring 1998, Pages 96–97, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711972 Published: 01 March 1998
Sexual Orientation and Legal Discourse: Legal Constructions of the “Normal” Family
Legal method, or the way in which legal claims are processed, is an integral component of the law's authority to include, exclude and deny claims and experiences. This paper explores the issue of sexual orientation and the legal construction of family as it emerges in the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Egan v. Canada . The analysis includes a detailed consideration of the ways in which the Supreme Court of Canada incorporates assumpti…
Charismatic Christianity: Sociological Perspectives
Molly Mormons, Mormon Feminists and Moderates: Religious Diversity and the Latter Day Saints Church
Based on data from life history interviews with 28 Latter Day Saints women, this paper considers the process of boundary negotiation on two key sites. First, how do Mormon women maintain their autonomy and agency in the context of institutionalized patriarchy. Secondly, how do women make sense of church prescriptions on male authority both within the family and in the church hierarchy. The study reveals that LDS women are not monolithic in their …
Aboriginal Spirituality and the Legal Construction of Freedom of Religion
Journal Article Aboriginal Spirituality and the Legal Construction of Freedom of Religion Get access Lori G. Beaman Lori G. Beaman associate professor of sociology University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 44, Issue 1, Winter 2002, Pages 135–149, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/44.1.135 Published: 01 January 2002
Shared Beliefs, Different Lives: Women's Identities in Evangelical Context
Journal Article Shared Beliefs, Different Lives: Women's Identities in Evangelical Context by Lori G. Beaman. St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 1999, 161 pp., $21.99 (paper) Get access Laurel Kearns Laurel Kearns Drew University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 63, Issue 2, Summer 2002, Pages 255–256, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712568 Published: 01 July 2002
Response to Beyer and Gill
The Myth of Pluralism, Diversity, and Vigor: The Constitutional Privilege of Protestantism in the United States and Canada
Social Theory and Religion
Religion and Rights: The Illusion of Freedom and the Reality of ControL
This paper examines legal guarantees of freedom of religion through the vehicle of rights using a case study of a Jehovah's Witness member in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, who refused to receive blood transfusions prescribed as part of her cancer treatment. The paper examines the pervasive concept of risk of harm that has recently become part of legal discourse in the balancing of rights process. The notion of governance is used to examine the social…
Defining Harm: Religious Freedom and the Limits of the Law
In the past several years religion has increasingly become an integral component of discussions about diversity and multiculturalism in Canada. Of particular concern has been the formulation of limits on religious freedom. Defining Harm explores the ways in which religion and religious freedom are conceptualized and regulated in a cultural context of fear of the "other" and religious "extremism." Drawing from literature on risk society, governanc…
Religion and Diversity in Canada
Canada officially prides itself on being a multicultural nation, welcoming people from all around the world, and enshrining that status in its Charter of Rights and Freedoms as well as in an array of laws and policies that aim to protect citizens from discrimination on various grounds, including race, cultural origin, sexual orientation, and religion. This volume explores the intersection of these diversities, foregrounding religion as the primar…
Displacing Religion, Disarming Law: Situating Quaker Spirituality in the “Trident Three” Case
The authors focus on the case of the “Trident Three”, who boarded a Trident submarine control station on barge on a Scottish loch and, using their bare hands and small hammers, disabled much of the computer equipment in the station, temporarily disarming one third of Britain’s nuclear weapons system. Drawing primarily on a discourse analysis of the case, the authors identify a profound disjuncture between the ways in which the law and religious d…
Is Religious Freedom Impossible in Canada
The idea of religious freedom is not new in Canadian law or wider public discourse, although it has taken on a life of its own in the post- Charter era (1982 onward) and certainly in the last several years. As the courts wade more fully into the swirling abyss that is religion they find themselves struggling with the issues that preoccupy scholars of religion (and for which they have found no conclusive answer): what is “religion” and how can it …
It was all slightly unreal”: What's Wrong with Tolerance and Accommodation in the Adjudication of Religious Freedom
Dans le présent article, l'auteure soutient que R. c. N.S. fournit l'occasion de voir comment les concepts de tolérance et d'accommodement peuvent miner tout sens profond et fondamental de l'égalité. De tels concepts sont très nuisibles parce que les relations de pouvoir qu'ils entretiennent sont fondées sur l'inégalité. Ils invoquent un privilège colonial selon lequel « nous » nous occuperons de « vous ». Le vocabulaire de l'accommodement raison…
Pascale Fournier Muslim Marriage in Western Courts: Lost in Transplantation. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2010, 206 p
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Just work it out amongst yourselves: The Implications of the Private Mediation of Religious Freedom
In its much-heralded report of 2008, the Bouchard-Taylor Commission struck by the Quebec government divided the resolution of contests involving religion-based claims into two realms: those which are solved in the courts and before human rights tribunals and therefore enter into formal determinations based on ‘reasonable accommodation’ and those disputes which are settled in private, with the guiding principle being responsabilisation dans la sph…
Battles Over Symbols: The “Religion” of the Minority Versus the “Culture” of the Majority
Moreover, with the benefit of hindsight, it is easy to identify in the constant central core of Christian faith, despite the inquisition, despite anti-Semitism and despite the crusades, the principles of human dignity, tolerance and freedom, including religious freedom, and therefore, in the last analysis, the foundations of the secular State. A European court should not be called upon to bankrupt centuries of European tradition. No court, certai…
The will to religion: Obligatory religious citizenship
This article takes up the problematic of the 'new normal' and its necessary twin, the 'will to religion'. The notion of the 'new normal' describes the shift to the persistent presence, indeed requirement, for religious assessment in all manner of public and institutional life. The idea of the will to religion reflects a broadly Foucauldian perspective on the care of the self and the requirement to confess-in this instance to confess one's belongi…
Overdressed and underexposed or underdressed and overexposed
Judges and public policy makers have transmitted conflicting messages in relation to women’s bodies and have made normative judgements about how women are to appear in public. Women who have been judged to be wearing too much are called to undress as they are seen as interfering with the rights of others or being oppressed. Women judged to be wearing too little are urged to clothe themselves to avoid being seen as inviting sexual assault or dress…
Deep Equality as an Alternative to Accommodation and Tolerance
The Burqa Affair across Europe: Between Public and Private Space
Contents: Introduction, Alessandro Ferrari and Sabrina Pastorelli In praise of pragmatism, Silvio Ferrari Burqa and Islam, Roberta Aluffi Beck-Peccoz Burqa, niqab and women's rights, Letizia Mancini A besieged right: religious freedom and the Italian war on the burqa and the niqab, Alessandro Ferrari The burqa affair in France, Anne Fornerod Legal and social issues concerning the wearing of the burqa and other head coverings in the United Kingdom…
Woven together: Advocacy and Research as Complementary
One of the many important contributions of second-wave feminist scholarship was the re-positioning of scholarly activity as being necessarily situated in relation to 'I.' This insistence on standpoint, or positionality, was coupled with a contribution from postmodernism, which challenged the notion that (universal) truths could circulate without specific attachments to people and places. Advocacy was a less used word, but the position taken in th…
Issues in Religion and Education: Whose Religion
Issues in Religion and Education, Whose Religion? is a contribution to the dynamic and evolving global debates about the role of religion in public education. This volume provides a cross-section of the debates over religion, its role in public education and the theoretical and political conundrums associated with resolutions. The chapters reflect the contested nature of the role of religion in public education around the world and explore some o…
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