Introduction: Law, Religion, Disability

Authors

  • Ravi Malhotra Associate Professor/Professeur Agrégé Faculty of Law, Common Law Section/Faculté de Droit, Section de Common Law University of Ottawa/Université d'Ottawa
  • Heather Shipley University of Ottawa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v4i3.228

Keywords:

law, religion, disability, rights

Abstract

The intersections of religion, law and disability offer a vast spectrum of possible analytical interrogations. Yet the relationship of law, religion and disability is still an emerging research area; the overlapping challenges that are produced by barriers within religious and legal spheres offer insights regarding the lives of persons with disabilities within both religious and legal domains. 

Author Biographies

Ravi Malhotra, Associate Professor/Professeur Agrégé Faculty of Law, Common Law Section/Faculté de Droit, Section de Common Law University of Ottawa/Université d'Ottawa

Ravi Malhotra is Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, Common Law Section. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Toronto. He has published widely on issues relating to disability rights and serves on the Human Rights Committee of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities. He is the author (with Morgan Rowe) of Exploring Disability Identity and Disability Rights through Narratives, which was released in paperback this year from Routledge. He is a member of the Board of the Canadian Law and Society Association.

Heather Shipley, University of Ottawa

Heather Shipley is Project Manager for the Religion and Diversity Project, a SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative at the University of Ottawa.  Her research focuses the construction, management and regulation of religion, gender, sexuality and sexual orientation as identity categories in media, legal and public discourse. Publications include:  Globalized Religion and Sexual Identity: Contexts, Contestations, Voices, (2014, editor)“International Studies in Religion and Society,” Brill Academic Press; “Human Rights, Sexuality and Religion: Between Policy and Identity,” (2012) Canadian Diversity 9(3): 52-55; “One of these things is not like the other: Regulating Sexual Difference,” (2012) Reasonable Accommodation: Managing Religious Diversity, edited by L. Beaman, Vancouver: UBC Press, 165-186; and “Examining Sexual Diversity: Sexual Orientation and Marriage in Canadian Law” (2008) Journal of Religion and Culture 20: 95-116.

 

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How to Cite

Malhotra, R., & Shipley, H. (2015). Introduction: Law, Religion, Disability. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 4(3), i-xiv. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v4i3.228

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 3 (2015)

Section

Foreword

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