Babie, P.Barker, R.Andersen, C.Rasmi Alumari, M.2025-08-272025-08-272025Comparative Approaches to Law and Religion:Methods and Epistemologies of Comparative Legal Analysis, 2025 / Barker, R., Andersen, C., Rasmi Alumari, M. (ed./s), Ch.6.1, pp.143-146978-1-032-47888-3https://hdl.handle.net/2440/147076Although Canada and the United States share a physical border, the same cannot be said of the constitutional treatment of the metaphysical boundary between church and state. As Matt Watson so ably shows in Chapter 6, as they arise in relation to public funding for religious schools, and in the absence in Canada of a constitutional bar to such funding, the legal differences between the two nations represent the product of divergent constitutional histories. In revealing these dual histories, Watson: advances an explanatory argument [that] [i]ntegrat[es] historical narratives, philosophical underpinnings, and societal dynamics and demographics, propos[ing] a multifaceted, interdisciplinary explanation for why American and Canadian legal doctrines around state funding for religious schools diverge so substantially.en© 2025 selection and editorial matter, Renae Barker, Camilla Baasch Andersen and Mohammad Rasmi Alumari; individual chapters, the contributorsBook chapter10.4324/9781003397311-10742868Babie, P. [0000-0002-9616-3300]