Law’s Religion
Rendering Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20079880 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin L Berger (0000-0001-9907-2247, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Pages | 264-296 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.59962/9780774814997-013 |
| OpenAlex | W3123237373 |
| ISBN | 9780774814997 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
This article argues that constitutional law’s inability to deal with religion in a satisfying way flows, in part, from its failure to understand religion as, in a robust sense, culture. Once one begins to understand the Canadian constitutional rule of law itself as a cultural form, it becomes apparent that law renders religion in a very particular fashion, and that this rendering is a product of law’s symbolic categories and interpretive horizons. This article draws out the elements of Canadian constitutionalism’s unique rendering of religion and argues that, although Canadian constitutionalism claims to understand religion as a culture, this is true only in the thinnest of senses. More accurate (and more illuminating) is the claim that law’s view of religion is, itself, profoundly cultural. Cet article avance que l'incapacite du droit constitutionnel a composer avec la religion de maniere satisfaisante decoule, en partie, de son insucces a comprendre la religion comme une culture—dans un sens plein. Une fois que l'on commence a comprendre la primaute du droit constitutionnel canadien elle-meme comme une forme culturelle, il devient evident que le droit interprete la religion d'une facon tres particuliere, et que cette interpretation est un produit des categories symboliques et des horizons interpretatifs du droit. Cet article extrait du constitutionnalisme canadien les elements de l'interpretation unique de la religion, et affirme que meme si le constitutionnalisme canadien pretend comprendre la religion comme une culture, ceci n'est vrai que dans le sens le plus restreint. Plus exacte (et plus edifiante) est la pretention que la facon dont le droit voit la religion, est, elle-meme, profondement culturelle
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2021 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |