Multiculturalism and religious identity : Canada and India /

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Imprint:Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11229757
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Other authors / contributors:Beaman, Lori G. (Lori Gail), 1963- editor.
Sikka, Sonia, 1963- editor.
ISBN:9780773592209
0773592202
9780773592216
0773592210
9780773543744
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:How, and to what extent, can religion be included within commitments to multiculturalism? This book addresses this question by examining the political recognition and management of religious identity in Canada and India.
Other form:Print version: Multiculturalism and religious identity.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Lori G. Beaman and Sonia Sikka
  • Multiculturalism and religious pluralism in Canada: intimations of a "post-Westphalian" condition / Peter Beyer
  • Religious diversity and multicultural accommodation / Gurpreet Mahajan
  • State, religious diversity, and the crisis of secularism / Rajeev Bhargava
  • Secularism: a possible Gandhian reconstruction / Bindu Puri
  • Lessons from the management of religious diversity in Chinese societies: a diversity of approaches to state control / Andre? Laliberte?
  • Justice, diversity, and dialogue: Rawlsian multiculturalism / Ashwani Peetush
  • The normativity of inclusion and exclusion: should multiculturalism encompass religious identities? / Gordon Davis
  • What can Weberian sociology tell us about multiculturalism and religion? / Elke Winter
  • The Ayodhya dispute: law's imagination and the functions of the status quo / Deepak Mehta
  • Laws of general application: the retreat from multiculturalism and its impications for religious freedom / Lori G. Beaman
  • Theism and the secular in Canada / Solange Lefebvre
  • The limits of multiculturalism in contemporary India / Shail Mayaram
  • An exploration of multi-religiosity within India: the Sahebdhani and the Matua sects / Sipra Mukherjee
  • The difference "difference" makes: Jainism, religious pluralism, and identity politics / Anne Vallely
  • Religion education in a multicultural society / Sonia Sikka
  • Doing caste, making citizens: differing conceptions of religious identities and autonomy in Hindu law / Gopika Solanki
  • Conclusion / Sonia Sikka and Lori G. Beaman.