Democracy, Religious Pluralism and the Liberal Dilemma of Accommodation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mookherjee, Monica (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Studies in Global Justice, 7
• Subjects: 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...