Democracy, Religious Pluralism and the Liberal Dilemma of Accommodation

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Mookherjee, Monica (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Σειρά: Studies in Global Justice, 7
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Political science.; Ethics.; Political philosophy.; Political Philosophy.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Philosophy of Law.; Political Science.

How should liberal democratic governments respond to citizens as religious believers whose values, norms and practices might lie outside the cultural mainstream? Some of the most challenging political questions arising today focus on the adequacy of a policy of ‘live and let live’ liberal toleration...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction. Liberal Democracy and Religious Pluralism: Accommodating or Resisting the Diversity of a Globalising Age? Monica Mookherjee
• Section I. Religious Pluralism in Liberal Democracies: Toleration and the Dynamics of Social Conflict
• 2. Religions and Liberal Democracy: Reflections on Doctrinal, Institutional and Attitudinal Learning; Veit Bader
• 3. How Not to Tolerate Religion; Glen Newey
• 4. On the Muslim Question; Anne Norton
• 5. Dealing Morally With Religious Differences; Sorin Baiasu
• 6. Diversity and Equality: ‘Toleration as Recognition’ Reconsidered; Andrea Baumeister
• Section II: Cases, Concepts and New Frameworks for Accommodating Religion in Liberal Democracies
• 7. Modus Vivendi and Religious Conflict; John Horton
• 8. Negotiating the ‘Sacred’ Cow: Cow Slaughter and the Regulation of Difference in India; Shraddha Chigateri
• 9. An Ex Post Legem Approach to the Reconciliation of Minority Issues in Contemporary Democracies; Emanuela Ceva.