Out of sight, out of mind: the role of the body in Canada's multicultural religious identity

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dc.contributor.authorBerard, Bethany
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeMacKendrick, Kenneth G. (Religion) Ives, Peter (Political Studies)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorColorado, Carlos (Religion)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-20T19:40:24Z
dc.date.available2015-08-20T19:40:24Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.degree.disciplineReligionen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
dc.description.abstract“Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Role of the Body in Canada’s Multicultural Religious Identity” examines the role of the body in contemporary conflicts of religious dress in public spaces in Canada. Utilizing policies, policy proposals, and legal precedents that regulate the religious body, I argue the physical religious body resides in a liminal space between the inclusive ideals of multicultural policy and the exclusionary policies of an overtly secular public sphere. Particular definitions of secularism and liberalism shape the construction of public life and civic spaces, and these specific understandings produce public space that is seemingly inhospitable to certain embodied religious expressions. The religious body complicates the assumed separation of religion and state, which understands religion to be an element of private, not public life. I argue that policies which seek to limit the religious body in public or civic spaces work to create an “ideal” secular citizen.en_US
dc.description.noteOctober 2015en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/30671
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectReligion in Canadaen_US
dc.subjectMulticulturalismen_US
dc.subjectThe public sphereen_US
dc.subjectThe bodyen_US
dc.subjectQuebecen_US
dc.subjectEmbodied religionen_US
dc.subjectLegislation of the bodyen_US
dc.titleOut of sight, out of mind: the role of the body in Canada's multicultural religious identityen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
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