Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity: Analysis, Reception and Challenges

ISBN-13: 9781032096926 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 338 str.

Solange Lefebvre; Patrice Brodeur

Opis

Analysing the work of public commissions in Britain, France, Belgium, and Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Singapore and Norway the book reflects on how they were formed, the way they framed religious and cultural diversity, the questions and controversies they examined, the key political actors involved, public and media reception, legal cha

Spis treści

List of Figures and Tables

List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface: The Benefit of Analysing National Public Commissions on Diversity for Research and Policy-Making

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction: National Commissions on Diversity: When Reflective Processes Happen in Parallel within Several Nation-States

 

Part I: Britain, France, Quebec and Belgium

 

Chapter 1—National Commissions on Collective Identity and Diversity: Britain, France, Quebec and Belgium

Chapter 2—‘Stories are the secret reservoirs of values’: Personal Recollections of Two Commissions in the United Kingdom

Chapter 3—Assumptions of Power Subverted: Media and Emotions in the Wake of the Parekh Report 

Chapter 4—From the Stasi (2003) to the Machelon Commission (2006): The Use of Commissions in Religious Regulation in France

Chapter 5—The Outcome of the Stasi Report in France: Much Ado About Nothing?

Chapter 6—The Bouchard-Taylor Commission in Quebec and Reasonable Accommodations: Collective Creation and Multilevel Reception

Chapter 7—Debating Intercultural Integration in Belgium: From the Commission for Intercultural Dialogue to the Round Tables on Interculturalism

 

Part II: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives

 

Chapter 8—The Commissions: Caught between Media Simplifications and Political Interests

Chapter 9—Control, Instrumentalization and Co-operation: The Relationship between Law and Religion in Four National Contexts

Chapter 10—Glocalizations of a Common Discourse: The United Kingdom and Quebec Compared in the Context of Four National Commissions on Diversity

Chapter 11—The Altar of Victory and the Crucifix: A Tale of Two Controversial Symbols

Chapter 12—A Coherent Public Policy on Religion in Norway? An Analysis of the 2013 Report ‘A Society Open to Religious and Worldview Diversity’

Chapter 13—A National Enquiry into Freedom of Religion and Belief in Australia

Chapter 14—Public-Policy Discourses on Selected Significant Issues of Cultural and Religious Diversity in Singapore

Chapter 15—The Religious Diversity Conundrum in Morocco: The Case of the National Commission for Dialogue on Civil Society and New Constitutional Prerogatives (2012) 

Conclusion: On 'National Diversity Commissions'

O autorze

Solange Lefebvre  holds the Research Chair in Management of Cultural and Religious Diversity at the Faculty of Theology and the Sciences of Religions, University of Montreal. She is the principal investigator of the international project on National Commissions on Diversity. She has conducted extensive research and published widely on issues of religion in the public arena, management of religious diversity, religion and education, and religious heritage. Lefebvre also served as a member of the Committee of Experts for the Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences, chaired by Gérard Bouchard and Charles Taylor.

Patrice Brodeur is an associate professor at the Faculty of Theology and the Sciences of Religions at the University of Montreal (Canada), as well as senior adviser at the international Dialogue Centre (KAICID) in Vienna, Austria. He studied at McGill University and Harvard University. His career highlights include a Junior Canada Research Chair on Islam, Pluralism and Globalization at the University of Montreal (2005–2015), leading an interdisciplinary research team on contemporary Islamic thought as well as on various forms of dialogue, and developing a Peace Mapping Project.