Zero Tolerance?: Sikh Swords, School Safety, and Secularism in Quebec

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Author/collaborator
Title
Zero Tolerance?: Sikh Swords, School Safety, and Secularism in Quebec
Abstract
Examines the controversial debate over the right of Sikh students in Quebec to carry “kirpāns” (ceremonial daggers) to public schools as markers of religious identity. The author documents the ways in which conflicting conceptions of secularism influenced how various non-Sikh participants in the debate responded to Sikh presentations of the kirpāns. She also demonstrates how Sikh activists selectively engaged the competing discourses on secularism in ways that furthered their interests.
Publication
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Volume
Vol. 75
Issue
no. 4
Pages
814-839
Date
December 2007
Language
en
Citation
Stoker, Valerie. “Zero Tolerance?: Sikh Swords, School Safety, and Secularism in Quebec.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion Vol. 75, no. 4 (December 2007): 814–839.
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