Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity : National Narratives, Multiple Identities and Minorities (Paperback)

Foreword Bhikhu ParekhIntroduction. A Retrospective on Diversity Commissions: From Set-Up and Working Methods to Impacting PolicyKatayoun Alidadi and Marie-Claire FobletsPart IThe Importance of Britishness: The Parekh Commission Report and beyond Pointing to a Multicultural Future: Rethinking Race, Ethnicity, Religion and BritishnessTariq Modood National Identities and the ‘Parekh Report’Varun UberoiBritish Multiculturalism: From ‘Parekh’ to ‘PREVENT’, and BeyondRalph Grillo ‘Religion, Belief and Diversity in Transition: The Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life’Maleiha MalikPart IILaicite Facing Religious Diversity: France’s Stasi Commission and its LegacyLaicite is a most liberal legal frame: reflections on the work on of the Stasi Commission Patrick Weil Retrospective on the French Stasi CommissionJean Bauberot and John R. Bowen Theoretical Perspectives of Cultural and Religious Diversity in Two National ReportsKarel J. LeyvaPart IIIReasonable Accommodations Revisited: Quebec’s Bouchard-Taylor CommissionThe Bouchard-Taylor Commission and Beyond. Cultural and Religious Diversity in QuebecJocelyn Maclure and Sebastien LacroixCohesive Fear: A Comment on Maclure and LacroixJean-Francois Gaudreault-DesBiensPart IVBelgium’s Experiment with Interculturalism: The Round Tables Experience The Round Tables on Interculturalism: A Successful or Unsuccessful Experiment inDeliberative Democracy?Marie-Claire Foblets Religious and Cultural Diversity in Belgium: Finding the Common DenominatorPatrick Charlier and Nathalie Denies‘Making a difference’: Dialogue and compromise in the Belgian Federal Round Tables of Interculturalism Nadia FadilPart VEngaging Retrospective Insights, Forging Ways Forward Religion in the Retreat of MulticulturalismChristian Joppke Religion, Culture and Liberal Democracy: The Issue of Majority Cultural PrecedenceGeoffrey Brahm Levey The European Court of Human Rights: Fundamental Assumptions that have a ChillingEffect on the Protection of Religious DiversityEugenia Relano PastorCharting Perspectives, Positions and Recommendations in Four Commission Reports: Reasonable Accommodation for Religion or Belief as BarometerKatayoun Alidadi