Changing the Lens: Locating Religious Communities within U.S. And Canadian Families and Constitutions
Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law, Vol. 15, No. 1, p. 125, 1998
7 Pages Posted: 21 Aug 2009
Date Written: 1998
Abstract
This paper selects defining moments in the self-understanding of the United States and Canada in order to investigate the ways in which religious communities and their members, particularly children, are conceived, constructed, and recognized. The following cases and conflicts illustrate the interactions among individual, family, religious community, and state: the 1971 United States Supreme Court case of Wisconsin v. Yoder, and the 1994 United States Supreme Court Kiryas Joel case, the 1996 Canadian Supreme Court decision in Adler v. Ontario, and the 1995 hijab controversy in Montreal.
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