Essays on secularism and multiculturalism
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Essays on secularism and multiculturalism
ECPR Press , Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., c2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Whether the recently settled religious minorities, Muslims, in particular, can be accommodated as religious groups in European countries has become a central political question and threatens to create long-term fault lines.
In this collection of essays, Tariq Modood argues that to grasp the nature of the problem we have to see how Muslims have become a target of a cultural racism, Islamophobia. Yet, the problem is not just one of anti-racism but of an understanding of multicultural citizenship, of how minority identities, including those formed by race, ethnicity and religion, can be incorporated into national identities so all can have a sense of belonging together. This means that the tendency amongst some to exclude religious identities from public institutions and the re-making of national identities has to be challenged. Modood suggests that this can be done in a principled yet pragmatic way by drawing on Western Europe's moderate political secularism and eschewing forms of secularism that offer religious groups a second-class citizenship.
Table of Contents
Introduction / Part I: The Racialisation of Muslims/ Muslims as 'Race Relations' Actors / 1. Racism, Culturalism and Cultural Racism / 2. Ethno-Religious Assertiveness out of Racial Equality / 3. Censor or Censure: Maintaining Civility / 4. Hate Speech: The Feelings and Beliefs of the Hated / 5. Islamophobia and the Struggle for Recognition / 6. Pointing to a Multicultural Future: Rethinking Race, Ethnicity, Religion and Britishness / Part II: Multiculturalism and Secularism / 7. Multicultural Citizenship and the Shari'a Controversy in Britain / 8. Muslims, Religious Equality and Secularism / 9. Moderate Secularism, Religion as Identity and Respect for Religion / 10. Is There a Crisis of Secularism in Western Europe? / 11. State-Religion Connections and Multicultural Citizenship / 12. Multiculturalizing Secularism
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