Exploring the intricacies and dissonances of religious governance

The case of Quebec and the discourse of request

Bibliographic Data

ID4747206
AuthorsAmélie Barras (0000-0003-2226-9126, York University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume4
Issue1
Pages57-71
Publication date2016-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Research on Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2050-3032 • E-ISSN: 2050-3040
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2050303216630066
OpenAlexW2317339727
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited12

This article interrogates the extent to which institutional discourses on the governance of religious minorities are useful to think about the complexity of how religion gets negotiated in the quotidian. It takes as its starting point the exploration of the discourse on religious governance in the province of Quebec organized around the notion of request for accommodations. Through an analysis of public policy documents, it examines facets of this discourse of request, including the role it plays in delimiting what we imagine the religious (and Islam, in particular) to be and how we imagine it to work. Second, drawing on interviews with self-identified Muslims in Montreal, the article explores how piety gets negotiated in their everyday. These narratives are approached as fertile sites to think differently about the recognition of difference. This two-pronged perspective acts as an invitation to think more broadly about not only what institutional discourses "produce" but also what they "obscure

Civil discourse · Corporate governance · Discourse analysis · Islam · Linguistics · Media studies · Narrative · Piety · Political science · Politics · Public discourse · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development

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