Avigail Eisenberg is a professor of political science at the University of Victoria. She is the author of Reconstructing Political Pluralism and co-editor of Minorities within Minorities and Painting the Maple.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: New Approaches to Fundamental Freedom in Canada / Avigail Eisenberg 1. Reconciling Struggles over the Recognition of Minorities: Towards a Dialogical Approach / James Tully 2. Reasoning about Identity: Canada's Distinctive Culture Test / Avigail Eisenberg 3. The Imperative of "Culture" in a Colonial and de Facto Polity / Shauna McRanor 4. Culture as a Basic Human Right / Cindy Holder 5. The Misuse of "Culture" by the Supreme Court of Canada / Neil Vallance 6. Gender, Difference, and Anti-Essentialism: Towards a Feminist Response to Cultural Claims in Law / Maneesha Deckha 7. Interpreting the Identity Claims of Young Children / Colin Macleod 8. Protecting Confessions of Faith and Securing Equality of Treatment for Religious Minorities in Education / 9. The Irreducibly Religious Content of Freedom of Religion / Jeremy Webber Notes on Contributors Index