Social Science Sociology Of Religion
Beyond Accommodation
Everyday Narratives of Muslim Canadians
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2018
- Category
- Sociology of Religion, Cultural, General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774838313
- Publish Date
- Sep 2018
- List Price
- $32.95
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- ISBN
- 9780774838283
- Publish Date
- Sep 2018
- List Price
- $89.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774838290
- Publish Date
- Mar 2019
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- $32.95
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Description
Problems – of integration, failed political participation, and requests for various kinds of accommodation – seem to dominate the research on minority Muslims in Western nations. Beyond Accommodation offers a different perspective, showing how Muslim Canadians successfully navigate and negotiate their religiosity. The authors critique the model of reasonable accommodation, suggesting that it disempowers religious minorities by implicitly privileging Christianity and by placing the onus on minorities to make formal requests for accommodation. Through interviews, Muslim Canadians show that informal negotiation takes place all the time; scholars, however, have not been paying attention. This book proposes an alternative picture of how religious difference is woven into the fabric of Canadian society.
About the authors
Jennifer A. Selby is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies and an affiliate member of the Department of Gender Studies at Memorial University.
Amélie Barras is an associate professor in the Department of Social Science at York University.
Lori G. Beaman is Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Religion and Diversity Project. She is also a Canada Research Chair in the Contextualization of Religion in a Diverse Canada.
Editorial Reviews
"In sum[...]Beyond Accommodation offers a useful contrast to the more politically oriented approach of reasonable accommodation. It shows the potential for ethnographic research to highlight the local particularities of secular political discourses and frameworks and, in doing so, to productively critique representations of secular neutrality claims that tend to reproduce a kind of ‘view from nowhere’."
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The Multiculturalism and Religious Identity
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Multiculturalism and Religious Identity
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Religion in the Public Sphere
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Polygamy's Rights and Wrongs
Perspectives on Harm, Family, and Law
Polygamy’s Rights and Wrongs
Perspectives on Harm, Family, and Law
Reasonable Accommodation
Managing Religious Diversity
Religion and Canadian Society, Second Edition
Contexts, Identities, and Strategies
Defining Harm
Religious Freedom and the Limits of the Law
Religion and Canadian Society
Traditions, Transitions, and Innovations