CONTENTS

List of Contributors

Introduction: Religious Neutrality and the Exercise of Public Authority

Richard Moon and Benjamin L Berger

1.The Meaning and Entailment of the Religious Neutrality of the State: The Case of Public Employees

Jocelyn Maclure

2.Against Circumspection: Judges, Religious Symbols, and Signs of Moral Independence

Benjamin L Berger

3.Religious Lawyering and Legal Ethics

Faisal Bhabha

4.Managing and Imagining Religion in Canada from the Top and the Bottom: 15 Years After

Paul Bramadat

5.God Keep Our Land: The Legal Ritual of the McKenna-McBride Royal Commission, 1913–16

Pamela E Klassen

6.In/Visible Religion in Public Institutions: Canadian Muslim Public Servants

Amélie Barras, Jennifer A Selby and Lori G Beaman

7.The Prayer Case Saga in Canada: An ‘Expert Insider’ Perspective on Praying in the Political and Public Arenas

Solange Lefebvre

8.Physicians’ Rights to Conscientious Objection

Bruce Ryder

9.Conscientious Objections by Civil Servants: The Case of Marriage Commissioners and Same-Sex Civil Marriages

Richard Moon

10.A Freedom of Religion-Based Argument for the Regulation of Religious Schools

Daniel M Weinstock

11.‘Open House’/‘Portes Ouvertes’: Classrooms as Sites of Interfaith Interface

Shauna Van Praagh

Index