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Religion and the Exercise of Public Authority
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| A group of Canadian scholars from a variety of disciplines (law, religious studies, philosophy, social sciences, anthropology and theology) have produced a volume with the primary aim of exposing the legal and political assumptions underlying the concept of state neutrality and its limits as a governing ideal. The limits and assumptions of state neutrality are exposed and discussed by way of its interaction with religious diversity where it is most controversial – in public spaces and in the performance of public duties. This is done in eleven chapters that discuss the topic within various settings – the courtroom, the magistrate’s office, the hospital, the school, and the lawyer’s office. This interaction between religion and assumed notions of state neutrality can range from a public official wearing a religious symbol, to a public official refusing to register a civil union of a same-sex couple (based on the religious and conscientious objections of the official). As mentioned by the editors themselves: “These issues have exposed the difficulties engendered when civic officials engage with religion – both as a fact of social life and as an aspect of their own identities – while discharging their public responsibilities”. |
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English
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Tydskrif vir regswetenskap / Universiteit van die Oranje-Vrystaat. Fakulteit Regsgeleerdheid. - Bloemfontein, 1976, currens
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Bloemfontein
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Fakulteit van Regsgeleerdheid, Universiteit van die Oranje-Vrystaat
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2017
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2415-0517
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0258-252X
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DOI
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10.18820/24150517/JJS42.V1.8
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42
:1
(2017)
, p. 139-147
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