Defining Harm: Religious Freedom and the Limits of the Law
Examining the case of Jehovah's Witness Bethany Hughes, this book adds to the emergent collection of studies on religion's role in the construction of citizenship within Canada. Demonstrating the fluidity of not-so-neutral categories such as “normal,” “excess,” and “consent,” Defining Harm...
| Published in: | Sociology of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2010
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 253-254 |
| Review of: | Defining harm (Vancouver [u.a.] : Brit. Columbia Press, 2008) (Carrière, Kathryn)
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| Summary: | Examining the case of Jehovah's Witness Bethany Hughes, this book adds to the emergent collection of studies on religion's role in the construction of citizenship within Canada. Demonstrating the fluidity of not-so-neutral categories such as “normal,” “excess,” and “consent,” Defining Harm illustrates how social, religious, and medical interests intersect at particular moments in time within the legal forum. Denied her right to refuse blood transfusions on the basis of her religious conviction, author Lori Beaman illustrates how Hughes' body became a battleground for competing discourses. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srq031 |