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

National Narratives, Multiple Identities and Minorities
Redaktion: Alidadi, Katayoun; Foblets, Marie-Claire

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In several Western countries, expert commissions composed of academics, public figures, politicians and community organisers, have been established by governments or civil society to reflect on the changes and challenges of an increasingly plural society. This book focuses on the experiences of expert commissions in the UK, France, Quebec and Belgium.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317073789
• Artikelnr.: 54081307

Autorenporträt

Katayoun Alidadi is Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, and a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Marie-Claire Foblets is Director of the Department of Law and Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany and Professor of Law at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction. A Retrospective on Diversity Commissions: From Set-Up and
Working Methods to Impacting Policy Part I 2 Pointing to a Multicultural
Future: Rethinking Race, Ethnicity, Religion and Britishness 3 National
Identities and the 'Parekh Report' 4 British Multiculturalism: From
'Parekh' to 'PREVENT', and Beyond 5 'Religion, Belief and Diversity in
Transition: The Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life'
Part II 6 Laicité is a most liberal legal frame: reflections on the work on
of the Stasi Commission 7 Retrospective on the French Stasi Commission 8
Theoretical Perspectives of Cultural and Religious Diversity in Two
National Reports Part III 9 The Bouchard-Taylor Commission and Beyond.
Cultural and Religious Diversity in Quebec 10 Cohesive Fear: A Comment on
Maclure and Lacroix Part IV 11 The Round Tables on Interculturalism: A
Successful or Unsuccessful Experiment in Deliberative Democracy? 12
Religious and Cultural Diversity in Belgium: Finding the Common Denominator
13 'Making a difference': Dialogue and compromise in the Belgian Federal
Round Tables of Interculturalism Part V 14 Religion in the Retreat of
Multiculturalism 15 Religion, Culture and Liberal Democracy: The Issue of
Majority Cultural Precedence 16 The European Court of Human Rights:
Fundamental Assumptions that have a Chilling Effect on the Protection of
Religious Diversity 17 Charting Perspectives, Positions and Recommendations
in Four Commission Reports: Reasonable Accommodation for Religion or Belief
as Barometer