ISBN:
9782875741271
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (180 p)
Series Statement:
Diversitas v.15
Parallel Title:
Print version Revealing Democracy : Secularism and Religion in Liberal Democratic States
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Religion and state -- Québec (Province)
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Secularism -- Political aspects -- Québec (Province)
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Women's rights -- Québec (Province)
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Democracy -- Québec (Province)
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Religion and state -- Belgium
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Secularism -- Political aspects -- Belgium
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Women's rights -- Belgium
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Anxieties over the Islamic face covering and over the proper management of otherness in liberal democracies seem to have reached a new peak with the introduction of legislation banning the burka in France and Belgium, and recent proposals for similar statutes in Quebec. What assumptions are contained within Western secularism and revealed in these attempts at legislating women's religious clothing? This book presents a collection of essays which take secularism/laicite and the regulation of public expressions of religious commitment as their points of departure, exploring the issues these rai
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Introduction. Quebec, Secularism and Women's Rights: On Feminism and Bill 94 (Chantal Maillé and Daniel Salée); Backdrop to Bill 94; The Quebec Women's Movement; Quebec Feminism and Nationalism; On la Francophonie; Quebec feminists and Bill 94; References; Civilizational Delusions: Secularism, Tolerance, Equality (Wendy Brown); 1. Assumption One: Secularism Generates Religious Neutrality; 2. Assumption Two: Western Secularism is Equally Available to All Religions; 3. Assumption Three: Secularism Generates Tolerance as Mutual Respect Among Religions
Description / Table of Contents:
4. Assumption Four: Secularism is Culturally Neutral5. Assumption Five: Western Secularism Generates Gender Freedom and Equality; References; The Ban of the Full Face Veil in Belgium: Between Populism and Muslim Visibility Restrictions (Corinne Torrekens); 1. The Context: Growing Opposition Surrounding Muslim Visibility; 2. The Evolution of a Debate: the Full Veil Ban; 3. Arguments in Favour of a Mobilization Against the Law; 4. Mobilization and Arguments Against the Law; Conclusion; References; Regimes of Accommodation, Hierarchies of Rights (Monique Deveaux); 1. A Manufactured Conflict?
Description / Table of Contents:
2. Gender Equality and the Hierarchy of Rights3. Contested Understandings of Autonomy and Choice; Conclusion: Inclusion and Deliberation; References; Acts of Journalism and the Interpretive Contradiction in Liberal Democracy: Reactions to Quebec's Bill 94 (Greg M. Nielsen with Andreea Mandache); 1. Acts of Journalism and the Hermeneutic Contradiction; 2. Bill 94: Setting the Scene; 3. Coding Hospitality; 4. A Genealogy of Reasonable Accommodation; 5. Reasonably Legal or Just Tolerant?; Conclusion; References; Appendix A; Bill 94 2007-2010 (222 articles); Appendix B
Description / Table of Contents:
Reasonable Accommodation: 1,113 articlesQuebec's Secularism Regime Under (High) Tension (François Rocher); 1. A Fourfold Model of Secularism; 1.1. Secularism as a Regulatory Principle: Political Governance of Religion; 1.2. Normative Visions of Secularism; 1.3. Four Models; 2. Establishment of a Secularism Regime in Quebec; 2.1. From the "Reasonable Accommodations Crisis" to the Secularism Regime Crisis; 2.2. Secularism According to the Bouchard-Taylor Commission; 2.3 For a Passive, Pluralist Approach (With a Few Reservations); 2.4 For an Assertive, Monist Approach (With a Few Reservations)
Description / Table of Contents:
ConclusionReferences; 'Reasonable Accommodation' in Quebec: The Limits of Participation and Dialogue (Gada Mahrouse); 1. Dialogue and Participatory Democracy; 2. A Crisis of Secularism?; 3. Resolving or Fuelling the Crisis?; References; Conclusion: Revealing Justice (Greg M. Nielsen); References; Diversitas; Scientific Committee:; Series Titles
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