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Subject(s)

• Islam and secularism—Great Britain [Browse]
• Secularism—Great Britain [Browse]
• Multiculturalism—Great Britain [Browse]
• Islamophobia—Great Britain [Browse]

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction : rethinking political secularism : the multiculturalist challenge
• The racialisation of Muslims/Muslims as "race relations"actors
• Racism, culturalism and cultural racism
• Ethno-religious assertiveness out of racial equality
• Maintaining civility and the feelings of the hated
• Islamophobia and the struggle for recognition
• Pointing to a multicultural future : rethinking race, ethnicity, religion and britishness
• Multiculturalism and secularism
• Muslims, religious equality and secularism
• Multicultural citizenship and the Shari'a controversy in Britain
• Moderate secularism, religion as identity and respect for religion
• Multiculturalism and the "crisis of secularism"
• State-religion connexions and multicultural citizenship
• Multiculturalizing secularism
• Intercultural public intellectual engagement.

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ISBN

• 9781785523182 (hardback : alkaline paper)
• 178552318X (hardback : alkaline paper)
• 9781785523199 (paperback : alkaline paper)
• 1785523198 (paperback : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2019014937

OCLC

1090682400

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