Format:
VI, 410 S.
ISBN:
0773543740
,
0773543759
,
9780773543744
,
9780773543751
,
9780773592209
,
9780773592216
Content:
How, and to what extent, can religion be included within commitments to multiculturalism? Multiculturalism and Religious Identity addresses this question by examining the political recognition and management of religious identity in Canada and India. In multicultural policy, practice, and literature, religion has until recently not been included within broader discussions of multiculturalism, perhaps due to worries of potential for conflict with secularism. This collection undertakes a contemporary analysis of how the Canadian and Indian states each approach religious diversity through social and political policies, as well as how religion and secularism meet both philosophically and politically in contested public space. Although Canada and India have differing political and religious histories - leading to different articulations of multiculturalism, religious diversity, and secularism - both countries share a commitment to ensuring fair treatment for the different religious communities they include. Combining broader theoretical and normative reflections with close case studies, Multiculturalism and Religious Identity leads the way to addressing these timely issues in the Canadian and Indian contexts. --Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction
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Multiculturalism and religious pluralism in Canada: intimations of a "post-Westphalian" condition
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Religious diversity and multicultural accommodation
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State, religious diversity, and the crisis of secularism
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Secularism: a possible Gandhian reconstruction
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Lessons from the management of religious diversity in Chinese societies: a diversity of approaches to state control
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Justice, diversity, and dialogue: Rawlsian multiculturalism
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The normativity of inclusion and exclusion: should multiculturalism encompass religious identities?
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What can Weberian sociology tell us about multiculturalism and religion?
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The Ayodhya dispute: law's imagination and the functions of the status quo
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Laws of general application: the retreat from multiculturalism and its impications for religious freedom
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Theism and the secular in Canada
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The limits of multiculturalism in contemporary India
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An exploration of multi-religiosity within India: the Sahebdhani and the Matua sects
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The difference "difference" makes: Jainism, religious pluralism, and identity politics
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Religion education in a multicultural society
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Doing caste, making citizens: differing conceptions of religious identities and autonomy in Hindu law
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Conclusion
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780773592209
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780773592216
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Multiculturalism and religious identity Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014 ISBN 9780773592209
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0773592202
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Kanada
;
Indien
;
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
;
Religiöser Pluralismus
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Sikka, Sonia 1963-
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