The Challenges of a Secular Quebec

Foreword / Roberto Perin

Introduction / Lucia Ferretti and François Rocher

Part 1: Things in Perspective

1 Putting Things in Perspective: The Many Varieties of Secularism / François Rocher

2 Beyond Defending Religious Symbols: The Desire to Put Quebec In Its Place / Lucia Ferretti

Part 2: Historical and Sociological Perspectives

3 Quebec: Under the Rule of its Two Cities / Marc Chevrier

4 The Difficult Search for a Quebec Model of Laicity / Micheline Labelle

5 Some Muslim Quebec Women and Men Are in Favour of Bill 21 / Yasmina Chouakri

Part 3: Legal Perspectives

6 The Laicity of the State: The Cornerstone of Individual Civil and Political Rights / Julie Latour

7 Arguments Relating to the Unconstitutionality of the Act Respecting the Laicity of the State: A Massive Rebuttal / Daniel Turp

8 Rights Guaranteed Equally to Both Sexes, the Notwithstanding Clause, and the Act Respecting the Laicity of the State: Overview and Contribution to the Debate from a Quebec Perspective / Guillaume Rousseau

9 Laicity in the Light of Institutional Dialogue in Canada / Patrick Taillon

Part 4: Educational Perspectives

10 The Medium is the Message: There’s No Point Cluttering Educational Communication / Charles-Étienne Gill

11 Thinking About Laicity Today with Ferdinand Buisson / Normand Baillargeon

12 Secularism and the Symbolic: The Quebec School as a Place of Immanent Knowledge / Paul Sabourin

Conclusion: The Fate Of Bill 21 in the Courts and in Public Opinion in English Canada / Lucia Ferretti and François Rocher

List of Contributors; Index