SCAR 3RL3
RELIGION AND LAW
Fall 2024 · T01
Topics
- Week 1 (September 3-6)
- Readings
- Benjamin Berger, Laws’ Religion: Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism (University of Toronto Press, 2005), Chapter 2.
- Bills and Media for Discussion
- Bill 21 (passed, 2019)
- Bill 62 (passed but stuck in legal challenge, 2017)
- Bill 94 (Tabled in 2010 but not passed before government failed to be reelected)
- The Atlantic
- Washington Post
- NY Times
- Week 2 (September 9-13)
- Christine Hayes, What's Divine About Divine Law , Introduction.
- New Testament Readings: Romans 8-13
- Week 3 (September 16-20)
- Week 4 (September 23-27 – Friday class on Zoom this week)
- Introductory text on Hobbes' Leviathan from McMaster University Library Website
- Hugo Grotius, On the Laws of War and Peace (London, 1647), Prolegomena, Book 1 Chapter 1.
- Thomas Hobbes Leviathan (London, 1651), Chapters 13, 14, 30.
Readings
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Campus Store (short title) ↗
- Campus Store reading list ↗Fall 2025
- Course outline / syllabus ↗Fall 2024
- The outline explicitly states that no textbook is required. Some readings or course materials are supplied through Avenue to Learn; public bibliographic details may be incomplete.