Land, Law, Religion and Reconciliation: A Colloquium
The property of religious communities carries with it responsibility and possibility. Land and buildings once considered essential to communal life look different in the light of a housing crisis, an aging population, calls for justice for Indigenous peoples, and a pandemic. Join us to explore the changing landscape of religious property in Canada.
Featuring: Carmen Lansdowne, Moderator of the United Church of Canada, Bishop Anna Greenwood-Lee, St Philip's own Kathy Chan, UVic Law Professor and Acting Director of the CSRS, and many more speakers.
These lectures are part of/happening alongside Resurrect 2023
Talks:
- Permanent Revolution: religion and the Canadian social order
- Benefits and burdens of religious property ownership
- #landback: reclaiming the commons for a future not our own
- Navigating (or avoiding) disputes over religious property
- Religious property, taxation, and the public benefit
- Repurposing church property in a changing landscape
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