Religion in Canada: Difference between revisions
== Religious pluralism==
== Religious pluralism==
{{main|Freedom of religion in Canada}}
{{main|Freedom of religion in Canada}}
[[File:Freedom of Religion (38007857792).jpg|thumb|Freedom of religion sculpture by Marlene Hilton Moore at the McMurtry Gardens of Justice in Toronto{{cite web | title=Freedom of Religion – by Marlene Hilton Moore | website=McMurtry Gardens of Justice | url=https://mcmurtrygardensofjustice.com/content/freedom-religion-marlene-hilton-moore | access-date=2023-06-12}}]]
[[File:Freedom of Religion (38007857792).jpg|thumb|Freedom of religion sculpture by Marlene Hilton Moore at the McMurtry Gardens of Justice in Toronto{{cite web | title=Freedom of Religion by Marlene Hilton Moore | website=McMurtry Gardens of Justice | url=https://mcmurtrygardensofjustice.com/content/freedom-religion-marlene-hilton-moore | access-date=2023-06-12}}]]
Canada today has no [[state religion]], and the [[Government of Canada]] is officially committed to [[religious pluralism]].{{cite book|author=Richard Moon|title=Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ah66SQsk4hAC&pg=PA1|year= 2008|publisher=UBC Press|isbn=978-0-7748-1497-3|pages=1–4}} While the Canadian government’s official ties to religion, specifically [[Christianity]] are few, the [[Preamble to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms]] makes reference to “the supremacy of God.”{{cite book|title=Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVLFCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA284|date=27 May 2015|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-29059-4|pages=284–}} The [[O Canada|national anthem]] in both [[Official bilingualism in Canada|official languages]] also refers to God.{{cite book|author=Philip Resnick|title=The Labyrinth of North American Identities|url=https://archive.org/details/labyrinthofnorth0000resn|url-access=registration|year=2012|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1-4426-0552-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/labyrinthofnorth0000resn/page/17 17]–}} Nevertheless, the rise of [[Irreligion in Canada|irreligion]] within the country and influx of non-Christian peoples has led to a greater separation of government and religion,{{cite book|author1=Lance W. Roberts|author2=Rodney A. Clifton|author3=Barry Ferguson|title=Recent Social Trends in Canada, 1960–2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qnPOqwsR5UsC&pg=PA359|year= 2005|publisher=McGill-Queens|isbn=978-0-7735-2955-7|page=359}} demonstrated in forms like “Christmas holidays” being called “winter festivals” in public schools.{{cite book|author=Marguerite Van Die|title=Religion and Public Life in Canada: Historical and Comparative Perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GxZqGT-IrJ4C&pg=PA289|year= 2001|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-8245-9|page=289}} Some religious schools are government-funded as per [[Section Twenty-nine of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms]].{{cite book|author1=Anne F. Bayefsky|author2=Arieh Waldman|title=State Support of Religious Education: Canada Versus the United Nations|url=https://archive.org/details/statesupport_baye_2007_000_8665274|url-access=registration|year=2007|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|isbn=978-90-04-14980-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/statesupport_baye_2007_000_8665274/page/n0 3]}}
Canada today has no [[state religion]], and the [[Government of Canada]] is officially committed to [[religious pluralism]].{{cite book|author=Richard Moon|title=Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ah66SQsk4hAC&pg=PA1|year= 2008|publisher=UBC Press|isbn=978-0-7748-1497-3|pages=1–4}} While the Canadian government’s official ties to religion, specifically [[Christianity]] are few, the [[Preamble to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms]] makes reference to “the supremacy of God.”{{cite book|title=Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVLFCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA284|date=27 May 2015|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-29059-4|pages=284–}} The [[O Canada|national anthem]] in both [[Official bilingualism in Canada|official languages]] also refers to God.{{cite book|author=Philip Resnick|title=The Labyrinth of North American Identities|url=https://archive.org/details/labyrinthofnorth0000resn|url-access=registration|year=2012|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1-4426-0552-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/labyrinthofnorth0000resn/page/17 17]–}} Nevertheless, the rise of [[Irreligion in Canada|irreligion]] within the country and influx of non-Christian peoples has led to a greater separation of government and religion,{{cite book|author1=Lance W. Roberts|author2=Rodney A. Clifton|author3=Barry Ferguson|title=Recent Social Trends in Canada,…