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1. Does the free exercise of religion have a future in the marketplace of public education in the United States? / Charles J. Russo -- 2. School prayer / Martha M. McCarthy -- 3. Religion and the public school curriculum / Suzanne E. Eckes and Allison Fetter-Harrott -- 4. Distribution of religious materials in public schools / Ralph D. Mawdsley -- 5. Religious displays and holiday observances in public schools / Kevin P. Brady -- 6. Wearing religious garb in public schools / Allan G. Osborne, Jr. -- 7. Clash of values : religious autonomy and state efforts to eliminate all forms of discrimination / William E. Theo -- 8. The constitution religious education and the future of religious freedom in Australian schools / Paul Babie and Ben Mylius -- 9. From "Common Christianity" to "Equal concern and respect" : working out a new understanding of religion's place in Canada's schools / Gregory M. Dickinson and Nora M Findlay -- 10. Adapting to religious diversity : legal protection of religious preference in state-funded schools in England / Neville Harris and Javier Garcia Oliva -- 11. The legal status of religion in publicly-funded schools in Ireland / Dympna Glendenning -- 12. Freedom of religion and religious practices in school : the judicial approach in Malaysia / Fatt Hee Tie -- 13. Freedom of conscience and the right to education in Russia : a secular country of cultural and religious diversity / Maria Smirnova -- 14. Education, religion, and the law in South Africa / Marius Smitt -- 15. Analysis and recommendations / Charles J. Russo.

The approach of Critical Legal Studies that law is a cultural artefact that can be criticised is taken as point of departure in this paper. This insight is applied to food as a very important cultural artefact that permeates virtually every aspect of our personal and social lives. The paper then examines three types of restrictive diets, namely Kosher food production, halal food rules and vegetarianism. From this study it concludes that all three perform a vital social function of providing adherents with a unifying and identifying set of rules to foster social coherence. But it also provides adherents with a strong moral foundation that serves to justify a sense of moral superiority. Most importantly, all three these diets rest on a modernist view of morality in which absolute, unquestioning and universal truths are possible. It therefore serves to provide certainty in the postmodern condition of uncertainty and relativism. For that reason this study concludes that vegetarianism is the new religion – it provides people who no longer believe in traditional religions with a new certainty. ; https://doi.org/10.4102/td.v8i1.2

The approach of Critical Legal Studies that law is a cultural artefact that can be criticised is taken as point of departure in this paper. This insight is applied to food as a very important cultural artefact that permeates virtually every aspect of our personal and social lives. The paper then examines three types of restrictive diets, namely Kosher food production, halal food rules and vegetarianism. From this study it concludes that all three perform a vital social function of providing adherents with a unifying and identifying set of rules to foster social coherence. But it also provides adherents with a strong moral foundation that serves to justify a sense of moral superiority. Most importantly, all three these diets rest on a modernist view of morality in which absolute, unquestioning and universal truths are possible. It therefore serves to provide certainty in the postmodern condition of uncertainty and relativism. For that reason this study concludes that vegetarianism is the new religion – it provides people who no longer believe in traditional religions with a new certainty.