“Buckingham generally supports dialogue in the solving of problems rather than the blunt instrument of legal procedure and calls for the whole question [of religious freedom and of secularism] to be publicly debated. This is an admirable book. Lawyers and historians especially should read it. ” British Journal of Canadian Studies

“Janet Epp Buckingham’s research is impressively comprehensive and detailed. She is able to present facts and examples as narratives in both a geographically and historically complete way. The reader has the sense that all the ‘legal moments’ of religious life in Canada have been captured and collected here. ” Shauna Van Praagh, Faculty of Law, McGill University