Lori Gail Beaman FRSC (born 1963) is a Canadian academic.
She was made a fellow of the Academy of the Arts and Humanities of the Royal Society of Canada in 2015,[3] received an Insight Award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in 2017[4] and received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 2018.
Beaman has written extensively on religious diversity and the intersections of religion and law.
[9][10][11] She has also written about polygamy and how law frames certain types of family structures.
[12] Her commentaries on government responses to religion in the public sphere[13] (such as the proposed Charter of Quebec Values) [1] and the complexities of religious freedom[14] have appeared on the academic blog The Immanent Frame [2] and in the Tony Blair Faith Foundation's Global Perspectives Series, where she emphasized the need for positive narratives and more nuanced understandings of intra-religious diversity.