Multiculturalism and Religious Identity
Canada and India
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2014
417 pages
978-0-7735-9220-9 (ISBN)
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An examination of how religious identity is recognized and managed politically in two multicultural nations.
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McGill-Queen's University Press
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Sonia Sikka is professor of philosophy at the University of Ottawa. Lori G. Beaman is Canada Research Chair in the Contextualization of Religion in a Diverse Canada and director of the Religion and Diversity Project at the University of Ottawa.
Content
- Cover
- MULTICULTURALISM AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITY
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART ONE MODELS OF SECULARISM
- 1 Multiculturalism and Religious Pluralism in Canada: Intimations of a "Post-Westphalian" Condition
- 2 Religious Diversity and Multicultural Accommodation
- 3 State, Religious Diversity, and the Crisis of Secularism
- 4 Secularism: A Possible Gandhian Reconstruction
- 5 Lessons from the Management of Religious Diversity in Chinese Societies: A Diversity of Approaches to State Control
- PART TWO MULTICULTURALISM AND RELIGION
- 6 Justice, Diversity, and Dialogue: Rawlsian Multiculturalism
- 7 The Normativity of Inclusion and Exclusion: Should Multiculturalism Encompass Religious Identities?
- 8 What Can Weberian Sociology Tell Us About Multiculturalism and Religion?
- PART THREE RELIGIOUS MAJORITIES
- 9 The Ayodhya Dispute: Law's Imagination and the Functions of the Status Quo
- 10 Laws of General Application: The Retreat from Multiculturalism and Its Implications for Religious Freedom
- 11 Theism and the Secular in Canada
- PART FOUR PROBLEMS OF RECOGNITION
- 12 The Limits of Multiculturalism in Contemporary India
- 13 An Exploration of Multi-Religiosity within India: The Sahebdhani and the Matua Sects
- 14 The Difference "Difference" Makes: Jainism, Religious Pluralism, and Identity Politics
- 15 Religion Education in a Multicultural Society
- 16 Doing Caste, Making Citizens: Differing Conceptions of Religious Identities and Autonomy in Hindu Law
- Conclusion
- Contributors
- Index
