Multiculturalism and Religious Identity :Canada and India

Publication subTitle :Canada and India

Author: Sikka   Sonia  

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press‎

Publication year: 2014

E-ISBN: 9780773592209

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773543744

Subject: B9 Religion

Keyword: 宗教

Language: ENG

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Description

An examination of how religious identity is recognized and managed politically in two multicultural nations.

Chapter

PART ONE MODELS OF SECULARISM

1 Multiculturalism and Religious Pluralism in Canada: Intimations of a “Post-Westphalian” Condition

2 Religious Diversity and Multicultural Accommodation

3 State, Religious Diversity, and the Crisis of Secularism

4 Secularism: A Possible Gandhian Reconstruction

5 Lessons from the Management of Religious Diversity in Chinese Societies: A Diversity of Approaches to State Control

PART TWO MULTICULTURALISM AND RELIGION

6 Justice, Diversity, and Dialogue: Rawlsian Multiculturalism

7 The Normativity of Inclusion and Exclusion: Should Multiculturalism Encompass Religious Identities?

8 What Can Weberian Sociology Tell Us About Multiculturalism and Religion?

PART THREE RELIGIOUS MAJORITIES

9 The Ayodhya Dispute: Law’s Imagination and the Functions of the Status Quo

10 Laws of General Application: The Retreat from Multiculturalism and Its Implications for Religious Freedom

11 Theism and the Secular in Canada

PART FOUR PROBLEMS OF RECOGNITION

12 The Limits of Multiculturalism in Contemporary India

13 An Exploration of Multi-Religiosity within India: The Sahebdhani and the Matua Sects

14 The Difference “Difference” Makes: Jainism, Religious Pluralism, and Identity Politics

15 Religion Education in a Multicultural Society

16 Doing Caste, Making Citizens: Differing Conceptions of Religious Identities and Autonomy in Hindu Law

Conclusion

Contributors

Index

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