Indigenous Spiritualities and Religious Freedom

AvJeffery Hewitt,Beverly Jacobs

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Indigenous Spiritualities and Religious Freedom investigates the complex relationship between Indigenous legal orders and Canadian law, emphasizing the richness of Indigenous spiritual practices alongside their historical and ongoing suppression by the Canadian state. It critically examines the role and limitations of the Canadian Charter of Right’s section 2(a), which guarantees freedom of religion, in protecting the spiritual lives of Indigenous communities.The book highlights the holistic nature of Indigenous spiritual beliefs, which view the spiritual as immanent and closely tied to land and specific locations. The book reveals how, by contrast, the Anglo-American conception of religious freedom often separates spiritual and religious matters from civic and political concerns, and so fails to provide meaningful protection for Indigenous cultural and spiritual practices. Many essays in this collection propose alternative approaches to the relationship between Canadian law and Indigenous legal orders, particularly regarding Indigenous spiritual practices. Ultimately, Indigenous Spiritualities and Religious Freedom reveals the challenges – and perhaps the futility – of seeking significant protection for Indigenous spiritual practices within the existing framework of religious freedom.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-07-29
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:254
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781487523794

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Jeffery Hewitt is an associate professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.Beverly Jacobs is the senior advisor to the president on Indigenous relations and outreach, and an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor.Richard Moon is a distinguished university professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor.

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“This timely and thoughtfully edited volume brilliantly questions the implications of Canada’s legal provisions for freedom of religion in light of Indigenous spiritual claims and in the contexts of reconciliation and ongoing coloniality. Its chapters approach these tensions from a rich number of theoretical, political, and disciplinary vantage points that will both resonate with and challenge scholars and students of law, religion, and Indigenous Studies across Canada and beyond.”

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction Jeffery Hewitt, Beverly Jacobs, and Richard Moon1. Water Is Life: Haudenosaunee Responses to Climate Change and Water SecurityDawn Martin-Hill2. The Gaya’shra’gowa’ in the Twenty-First Century: Traditional Indigenous Governance and the Problem of Canadian Settler Colonial LawTheresa McCarthy3. An Imaginary for Our Sisters: Spirits and Indigenous LawVal Napoleon4. Indigenous Religious Rights: Reconciling Religious Views and Decolonizing Section 2(a) of the CharterNatasha Bakht5. Is State Neutrality Bad for Indigenous Religious Freedom?Benjamin L. Berger6. Ktunaxa and the Shape of Religious FreedomRichard Moon7. Beyond Experience? Objectivity, Indigeneity, and Freedom of ReligionJohn Borrows8. Ancestors in the Land: Indigenous Burial Sites and Religious FreedomSenwung Luk and Howard Kislowicz9. Posing the Land Question: An Analysis of Servatius v. Alberni School District No. 70 Ardith Walkem10. The Perils of Rights and Reconciliation for Indigenous PeoplesKaren DrakeContributors