Citizenship in Diverse Societies.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780191522666
- 338.9
- JF1061.C57 2000
Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1. Citizenship in Culturally Diverse Societies: Issues, Contexts, Concepts -- I: CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY -- 2. Discrimination and Religious Schooling -- 3. Extending Diversity: Religion in Public and Private Education -- II: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND GROUP REPRESENTATION -- 4. What does a Representative Do? Descriptive Representation in Communicative Settings of Distrust, Uncrystallized Interests, and Historically Denigrated Status -- 5. The Uneasy Alliance of Group Representation and Deliberative Democracy -- III: IMMIGRATION, IDENTITY, AND MULTICULTURALISM -- 6. Cultural Identity and Civic Responsibility -- 7. Anti-Essentialism, Multiculturalism, and the 'Recognition' of Religious Groups -- IV: GENDER AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY -- 8. Should Church and State be Joined at the Altar? Women's Rights and the Multicultural Dilemma -- 9. Female Autonomy and Cultural Imperative: Two Hearts Beating Together -- V: LANGUAGE RIGHTS -- 10. Official-Language Rights: Intrinsic Value and the Protection of Difference -- 11. Citizenship and Official Bilingualism in Canada -- VI: THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES -- 12. Three Modes of Incorporating Indigenous Law -- 13. 'Landed' Citizenship: Narratives of Aboriginal Political Participation -- VII: FEDERALISM AND NATIONALISM -- 14. Sustainable Federalism, Democratization, and Distributive Justice -- 15. Why Stay Together? A Pluralist Approach to Secession and Federation -- Further Reading -- List of References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
The book examines the contradition in a modern pluralistic society between the concepts of citizenship and the desire to show respect for ethnocultural diversity.
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