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The Multiculturalism and Religious Identity. Canada and India.
Sikka, Sonia; Beaman, Lori G.
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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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Number of pages
416
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773543744
SKU
V9780773543744
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About Sikka, Sonia; Beaman, Lori G.
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.
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