Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity (eBook, ePUB)

Analysis, Reception and Challenges
Redaktion: Lefebvre, Solange; Brodeur, Patrice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Analysing the work of public commissions in Britain, France, Belgium, and Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Singapore and Norway the book reflects on how they were formed, the way they framed religious and cultural diversity, the questions and controversies they examined, the key political actors involved, public and media reception, legal challenges and the impact they had both on public policy and in concrete situations such as work, schools and health care.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317073802
• Artikelnr.: 48410928

Autorenporträt

Solange Lefebvre holds the Research Chair in Management of Cultural and Religious Diversity at the Faculty of Theology and the Sciences of Religions, University of Montreal. She is the principal investigator of the international project on National Commissions on Diversity. She has conducted extensive research and published widely on issues of religion in the public arena, management of religious diversity, religion and education, and religious heritage. Lefebvre also served as a member of the Committee of Experts for the Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences, chaired by Gérard Bouchard and Charles Taylor. Patrice Brodeur is an associate professor at the Faculty of Theology and the Sciences of Religions at the University of Montreal (Canada), as well as senior adviser at the international Dialogue Centre (KAICID) in Vienna, Austria. He studied at McGill University and Harvard University. His career highlights include a Junior Canada Research Chair on Islam, Pluralism and Globalization at the University of Montreal (2005-2015), leading an interdisciplinary research team on contemporary Islamic thought as well as on various forms of dialogue, and developing a Peace Mapping Project.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface: The Benefit of Analysing National Public Commissions on Diversity
for Research and Policy-Making
Acknowledgements
Introduction: National Commissions on Diversity: When Reflective Processes
Happen in Parallel within Several Nation-States
Part I: Britain, France, Quebec and Belgium
Chapter 1-National Commissions on Collective Identity and Diversity:
Britain, France, Quebec and Belgium
Chapter 2-'Stories are the secret reservoirs of values': Personal
Recollections of Two Commissions in the United Kingdom
Chapter 3-Assumptions of Power Subverted: Media and Emotions in the Wake of
the Parekh Report
Chapter 4-From the Stasi (2003) to the Machelon Commission (2006): The Use
of Commissions in Religious Regulation in France
Chapter 5-The Outcome of the Stasi Report in France: Much Ado About
Nothing?
Chapter 6-The Bouchard-Taylor Commission in Quebec and Reasonable
Accommodations: Collective Creation and Multilevel Reception
Chapter 7-Debating Intercultural Integration in Belgium: From the
Commission for Intercultural Dialogue to the Round Tables on
Interculturalism
Part II: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 8-The Commissions: Caught between Media Simplifications and
Political Interests
Chapter 9-Control, Instrumentalization and Co-operation: The Relationship
between Law and Religion in Four National Contexts
Chapter 10-Glocalizations of a Common Discourse: The United Kingdom and
Quebec Compared in the Context of Four National Commissions on Diversity
Chapter 11-The Altar of Victory and the Crucifix: A Tale of Two
Controversial Symbols
Chapter 12-A Coherent Public Policy on Religion in Norway? An Analysis of
the 2013 Report 'A Society Open to Religious and Worldview Diversity'
Chapter 13-A National Enquiry into Freedom of Religion and Belief in
Australia
Chapter 14-Public-Policy Discourses on Selected Significant Issues of
Cultural and Religious Diversity in Singapore
Chapter 15-The Religious Diversity Conundrum in Morocco: The Case of the
National Commission for Dialogue on Civil Society and New Constitutional
Prerogatives (2012)
Conclusion: On 'National Diversity Commissions'