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Faith, Rights, and Choice

The Politics of Religious Schools in Canada

by (author) James Farney & Clark Banack

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2023
Category
Canadian, General, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487548285
    Publish Date
    Feb 2023
    List Price
    $34.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487551988
    Publish Date
    Feb 2023
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487545802
    Publish Date
    Feb 2023
    List Price
    $85.00

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The Canadian provinces have evolved quite different ways of responding to the policy problems posed by religious schools. Seeking to understand this peculiar reality, Faith, Rights, and Choice articulates the ways in which the provincial governance regimes developed for religious schools have changed over time.

 

Covering nearly three centuries, the book begins with the founding of schooling systems in New France and continues into a variety of present-day conflicts that emerged over the question of religion in schools. James Farney and Clark Banack employ a method of process-tracing, drawing on 88 semi-structured interviews with key policy insiders. They also reference archival material documenting meetings, political speeches, and legislative debates related to government decisions around issues of religious education. Relying on the theoretical foundations of both historical institutionalism and Canadian political development, Faith, Rights, and Choice presents a new analytic framework to help make sense of the policy divergence witnessed across Canada.

About the authors

James Farney is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Regina. He is the author of Social Conservatives and Party Politics in Canada and the United States.

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Clark Banack is the director of the Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities and an adjunct professor of political studies at the Augustana campus of the University of Alberta.

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