Liberalism, multiculturalism and toleration
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x, 209 pages ; 23 cm
"The publication of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses has given rise to wide-ranging and often bitter debate about the extent and limits of toleration in a modern multicultural society. This book calmly and carefully explores several features of that debate, and also places it in a wider context of philosophical concern about the proper relationship between liberalism, multiculturalism and toleration under modern conditions. The essays focus primarily on theoretical questions but they are always alert to the practical significance and implications of these questions. A wide variety of points of view is represented and, though the book raises issues of concern to everyone, it should be of particular value to those with a professional or academic interest in the problems presented by a multicultural society and to all those who have been challenged or confused by the frequently intemperate arguments which have surrounded the publication of Rushdie's novel. -- Book jacket
Includes index
Liberalism, multiculturalism and toleration / John Horton -- Multiculturalism and the British nation-state / Jagdish S. Gundara -- How much cultural and religious pluralism can liberalism tolerate? / Jonathan Chaplin -- Liberal neutrality, traditional minorities and education / Deborah Fitzmaurice -- Trust and toleration : some issues for education in a multicultural democratic society / Patricia White -- Tolerance and education / Peter Gardner -- The Satanic Verses controversy : a brief introduction / John Horton -- Respecting beliefs and rebuking Rushdie / Peter Jones -- Muslims, incitement to hatred and the law / Tariq Modood -- The history of blasphemy and the Rushdie affair / David Edwards -- Fatwa and fiction : censorship and toleration / Glen Newey -- The tigers of wrath and the horses of instruction / Susan Mendus
"The publication of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses has given rise to wide-ranging and often bitter debate about the extent and limits of toleration in a modern multicultural society. This book calmly and carefully explores several features of that debate, and also places it in a wider context of philosophical concern about the proper relationship between liberalism, multiculturalism and toleration under modern conditions. The essays focus primarily on theoretical questions but they are always alert to the practical significance and implications of these questions. A wide variety of points of view is represented and, though the book raises issues of concern to everyone, it should be of particular value to those with a professional or academic interest in the problems presented by a multicultural society and to all those who have been challenged or confused by the frequently intemperate arguments which have surrounded the publication of Rushdie's novel. -- Book jacket
Includes index
Liberalism, multiculturalism and toleration / John Horton -- Multiculturalism and the British nation-state / Jagdish S. Gundara -- How much cultural and religious pluralism can liberalism tolerate? / Jonathan Chaplin -- Liberal neutrality, traditional minorities and education / Deborah Fitzmaurice -- Trust and toleration : some issues for education in a multicultural democratic society / Patricia White -- Tolerance and education / Peter Gardner -- The Satanic Verses controversy : a brief introduction / John Horton -- Respecting beliefs and rebuking Rushdie / Peter Jones -- Muslims, incitement to hatred and the law / Tariq Modood -- The history of blasphemy and the Rushdie affair / David Edwards -- Fatwa and fiction : censorship and toleration / Glen Newey -- The tigers of wrath and the horses of instruction / Susan Mendus
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