ABSTRACT
This book examines various attempts in the ‘West’ to manage cultural, linguistic, and religious diversity – focusing on Muslim minorities in predominantly non-Muslim societies.
An international panel of contributors chart evolving national identities and social values, assessing the way that both contemporary ‘Western’ societies and contemporary Muslim minorities view themselves and respond to the challenges of diversity. Drawing on themes and priority subjects from Islamic Culture within Euro-Asian, Australian, and American international research, they address multiple critical issues and discuss their implications for existing and future policy and practice in this area. These include subjects such as gender, the media, citizenship, and multiculturalism.
The insight provided by this wide-ranging book will be of great use to scholars of Religious Studies, Interreligious Dialogue and Islamic Studies, as well as Politics, Culture, and Migration.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |18 pages
Introduction
part I|48 pages
Social harmony, nationalism, and integration
part II|55 pages
Education, citizenship, and cultural diversity
chapter 7|14 pages
Teaching citizenship against conflicting cross-cultural priorities in the Australian primary curriculum
chapter 8|12 pages
Britishness and British values
part III|52 pages
Civil liberties, multiculturalism and marginalisation
chapter 11|13 pages
History of multiculturalism in Canada and Australia
part IV|101 pages
Western values, Muslim migrants and compatibility of identity