Mapping the Legal Boundaries of Belonging

Rene Provost is Associate Professor of Law at McGill University, and founder and former Director of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.

• Preface ; Contributors ; Introduction - Let Us Compare Mythologies, Caylee Hong and Rene Provost ; Part I - Multiculturalism and Western Secularism ; Chapter 1 - The Christian Roots of the Secular State, Silvio Ferrari ; Chapter 2 - Conflicting Visions of Political Space, Suzanne Last Stone ; Chapter 3 - Human Rights and Secularism: Arendt, Asad and Milbank as Critics of the Secular Foundations of Human Rights, Shai Lavi ; Part II - Multiculturalism and Religious Freedom as Swords or Shields ; Chapter 4 - Religious Freedom as 'Reflexive Law', Ino Augsberg ; Chapter 5 - The Distinctiveness of Religious Liberty, Victor M. Muniz-Fraticelli ; Part III - Negotiating Identity Between State and Religion ; Chapter 6 - 'Inside Out/ Outside In': Co-Existence and Cross-Pollination of Religion and State, Shauna Van Praagh ; Chapter 7 - Who Is a Jew and The Law - Between London and Jerusalem, Daphne Barak-Erez ; Part IV - Whose Voice? Which Truth? One or Many? ; Chapter 8- A Dialogue Between a Liberal and an Ultra-Orthodox on the Exclusion of Women from Torah Study, Menachem Mautner ; Chapter 9 - Religious Claims as Public Reason? Polygamy as a Case Study, Angela Campbell ; Part V - Multiculturalism, Religion and the Geography of Power ; Chapter 10 - The Multicultural Nature of the Religious Accommodations for the Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel: A Curse or a Blessing?, Michael M. Karayanni ; Chapter 11 - Localizing Religion in a Jewish State, Yishai Blank ; Bibliography ; Index

The current state of multiculturalism and its future is an enormously important and difficult topic. This fascinating collection provides new insights through its imaginative comparison of Canada, specifically Quebec, and Israel. Tacking back and forth between these two countries, the book opens up in provocative ways the links between religion, secularism, human rights, and the possibilities of a post-multicultural society.