Rethinking Multiculturalism

Parekh, Bhikhu

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“…But also the non-engaged perspective of the observer may benefit from a combination of critical and constructive faculties, in particular where we examine the operations that political actors perform in making claims for tolerance by deploying existing terms, but usually also by interpreting and modifying the meaning of tolerance to fit their requests. A multiculturalist version of this kind of approach is the use of intercultural dialogue to resolve controversies such as in relation to Muslim anger over offensive portayals, which starts with existing 'operative public values' but aims to modify them in the light of new minority vulnerabilities to which those values may be insensitive (Parekh, 2000).…”

Section: Having It Allmentioning

confidence: 99%

What is important in theorizing tolerance today?

Brown

Dobbernack

Modood

et al. 2015

Contemp Polit Theory

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if one wants to grasp tolerance politically, that is, as a problem of power and as organizing relations among citizens, subjects, peoples or states, then it must be understood, inter alia, as being enacted through contingent, historically specific discourses - linguistically organized norms operating as common sense. [...]any political discourse of tolerance - from that developed for handling Protestant sectarianism in seventeenth-century England to that used by the G.W. Bush Administration in the aftermath of 9/11 to distinguish the West from the rest, to that used by the Israeli state for describing (only) its policies toward homosexuals - is embedded within other discourses articulating the qualities and meanings of the religious, cultural, social or political order that the discourse of tolerance purports to pacify. [...]tolerance, correctly understood, is a virtue of the public use of reason

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Section: Having It Allmentioning

confidence: 99%

What is important in theorizing tolerance today?

Brown

Dobbernack

Modood

et al. 2015

Contemp Polit Theory

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“…You are treating them unequally, because you have certain discursive privileges which you deny them." [5].…”

Section: Incoherences In Insistence On a Secularist Organization Of Smentioning

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Can We Move Beyond the Secular State?

Watson¹

2015

Religions

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Abstract:The article argues for re-consideration of the secularization so often in the West regarded as an essential condition for a democratic state. Its inbuilt incoherence and problematic consequences suggest that the term secular should be abandoned. Deep-seated reasons for objecting to such a proposal follow, discussing an affront to personal integrity, confronting intellectual apartheid and analysing abuse of religion. A way forward is suggested in learning to accept unavoidable levels of uncertainty, so that generous-minded dialogue can take the place of either/or thinking.

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“…Citizens, qua members of a certain community, must be enabled to comply with the moral prescriptions deriving from their membership. The commitment to non-discrimination translates here into the recognition of the equality of all religious groups (Parekh 2000), (Taylor 1992), (Kymlicka 1995).…”

Section: (C) General Notes On the Institutional Approach To Religiousmentioning

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Handling Religious Diversity: The Case of "Holy/Rest Days" in Italy

Faitini

Povino

2008

Human Affairs

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Abstract:The accommodation of a plurality of values within the same institutional framework is one of the main challenges with which contemporary democracies have been persistently confronted. This challenge has recently gained strength even in such traditionally homogeneous countries as Italy, as a consequence of an increase in the number of residents committed to diverse religious beliefs. Against this backdrop, this paper focuses on the case of requests for the legal recognition of religion-specific holy/rest days in Italy. The analysis of such a case will disclose-or so we believe-some valuable pointers as to how democratic societies could try to accommodate religious diversity in a way that is both respectful of the specificities of each religious group and compatible with the typically liberal commitment to the safeguard of individual freedom.

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Rethinking Multiculturalism

Cited by 440 publications

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What is important in theorizing tolerance today?

What is important in theorizing tolerance today?

Can We Move Beyond the Secular State?

Handling Religious Diversity: The Case of "Holy/Rest Days" in Italy

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