Citizenship education without religious culture? Concerns with Quebec’s new culture and citizenship program

One striking feature of Quebec’s new Culture and Citizenship in Québec (CCQ) program is its almost complete departure from any topics concerning religious culture.

However, an awareness of the different epistemic wrongs, in terms of unjust credibility and intelligibility deficits, that marginalized religious identities suffer in Quebec society gives us an important justification for continuing to teach for religious literacy.

Without mourning for a lost past, Beauchamp will argue that the need for epistemic justice should nevertheless serve as a guide when teaching about marginalized identities (including religious, indigenous, racialized or gendered, etc.) and that civic education gives teachers grounds for pursuing epistemic justice in the classroom.