ABSTRACT
This volume examines cases of accommodation and recognition of minority practices: cultural, religious, ethnic, linguistic or otherwise, under state law. The collection presents selected situations and experiences from a variety of regions and from different legal traditions around the world in which diverse societal stakeholders and political actors have engaged in processes leading to the elaboration of creative, innovative and, to a certain extent, sustainable solutions via accommodative laws or practices. Representing multiple disciplines and methodologies and written by esteemed scholars, the work analyses the pitfalls and successes of such accommodative practices, presenting insights into how solutions could or could not be achieved. The chapters address the sustainability and transferability of such solutions in order to further the dialogue in both scholarly and policy spheres. The book will be essential reading for academics, researchers, and policy-makers in the areas of minority rights, legal anthropology, law and religion, legal philosophy, and law and migration.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
Introduction
part 1|108 pages
Overcoming Structural (Legislative or Otherwise) Barriers to Accommodation
chapter 3|13 pages
Recognition of New Religious Communities under Public Law in Switzerland
chapter 4|26 pages
Overcoming Discriminating Taboos in Societies
chapter 5|22 pages
The Spanish Observatory of Religious Pluralism
part II|45 pages
Islam and Political, Legal, and Economic Inclusion
chapter 7|23 pages
House Rules for Islam in Hamburg
part III|51 pages
Accommodation and Indigenous Rights
chapter 9|26 pages
Seeking Solutions in the Land of the Long White Cloud
part IV|46 pages
The Role of the Judiciary in Negotiating Plural Normativities