The Multicultural Riddle

Author : Gerd Baumann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135961886

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Multicultural Riddle is a comprehensive exploration of all the issues that shape our search for a multicultural society. The book examines how we can establish a state of justice and equality between and among three groups: those who believe in a unified national culture, those who trace their culture to their ethnic identity, and those who view their religion as their culture. To solve the multicultural riddle, one must rethink national identity, ethnicity and the role of religion in the modern world.

Author : Gerd Baumann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135961893

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The Multicultural Riddle by Gerd Baumann Pdf

Multicultural Riddle is a comprehensive exploration of all the issues that shape our search for a multicultural society. The book examines how we can establish a state of justice and equality between and among three groups: those who believe in a unified national culture, those who trace their culture to their ethnic identity, and those who view their religion as their culture. To solve the multicultural riddle, one must rethink national identity, ethnicity and the role of religion in the modern world.

Author : Gerd Baumann,Andre Gingrich
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1845451082

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Grammars of Identity/alterity by Gerd Baumann,Andre Gingrich Pdf

Deals with the issues of the construction of Self and Other in the context of social exclusion of those perceived as different. This collection focuses on one theoretical proposition, namely, that the seemingly universal processes of identity formation and exclusion of the 'other' can be differentiated according to three modalities.

Author : Steven Vertovec,Susanne Wessendorf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135270704

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The Multiculturalism Backlash by Steven Vertovec,Susanne Wessendorf Pdf

In a relatively short time, many European governments have been purposefully dropping the notion ‘multicultural’ or other references to cultural diversity in their policy vocabularies. More and more politicians and public intellectuals have criticized a perceived shift towards ‘too much diversity’. This volume goes beyond the conventional approaches to the topic offering a careful examination of not only the social conditions and political questions surrounding multiculturalism but also the recent emergence of a ‘backlash’ against multicultural initiatives, programmes and infrastructures. Featuring case-study based contributions from leading experts throughout Europe and North America, this multidisciplinary work seeks to assess some of these key questions with reference to recent and current trends concerning multiculturalism, cultural diversity and integration in their respective countries, evaluating questions such as Is there is a common ‘sceptical turn’ against cultural diversity or a ‘backlash against difference’ sweeping Europe? How have public discourses impacted upon national and local diversity management and migration policies? Are the discourses and policy shifts actually reflected in everyday practices within culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse settings? The Multiculturalism Backlash provides new insights, informed reflections and comparative analyses concerning these significant processes surrounding politics, policy, public debates and the place of migrants and ethnic minorities within European societies today. Focusing on the practice and policy of multiculturalism from a comparative perspective this work will be of interest to scholars from a wide range of disciplines including migration, anthropology and sociology.

Author : Peter T. Lee
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666797534

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Hybridizing Mission by Peter T. Lee Pdf

This qualitative study explores intercultural social dynamics among international Christian workers who are part of multicultural teams engaged in Christian ministries in a North African country. It seeks to understand these workers' lived realities at intersections of multiple cultural flows. Ethnographic methods were used to collect and analyze data, and forty-nine international Christian workers were interviewed. The findings of this study indicate that intercultural Christian workers go through complex intercultural social processes interwoven in the fabric of their everyday life. These processes are mediated by their social experiences in the local North African context and their multicultural teams, resulting in significant changes in their personal dispositions and social behaviors. Based on these findings, a working concept of diasporic habitus is developed, and the practice of double discourses of culture is further examined. This research suggests that some existing missiological concepts need to be revisited and recommends further interdisciplinary conversations involving cultural anthropology and sub-fields in psychology about the changes that happen to people in intercultural missions. It also calls for a reflexive approach to missiological research that incorporates awareness of one's situatedness and the lasting impact of historical entanglements on contemporary intercultural relations.

Author : R. B. ter Haar Romeny
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004173750

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Religious Origins of Nations? by R. B. ter Haar Romeny Pdf

This volume presents the results of the Leiden project on the identity formation of the Syrian Orthodox Christians, which developed from a religious association into an ethnic community. A number of specialists react to the findings and discuss the cases of the East Syrians, Armenians, Copts, and Ethiopians.

Author : Richard Bellamy,Andrew Mason
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0719059097

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Political Concepts by Richard Bellamy,Andrew Mason Pdf

This book offers a sophisticated analysis of central political concepts in the light of recent debates in political theory. It introduces readers to some of the main interpretations, pointing out their strengths and weaknesses, including a broad range of the main concepts used in contemporary debates on political theory. It tackles the principle concepts employed to justify any policy or institution and examines the main domestic purposes and functions of the state. It goes on to study the relationship between state and civil society and finally looks beyond the state to issues of global concern and inter-state relations.

Author : Christine L. Ogan
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0739102699

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Communication and Identity in the Diaspora by Christine L. Ogan Pdf

"If my feet are in Amsterdam, my head and heart are in Turkey." This is the dilemma of the Turkish "guestworkers" in Christine Ogan's fascinating new work on the Netherland's migrant population. Ogan explores the explosive impact the Turkish media has had on this particular diasporic community as they struggle to adapt to life in the West and to redefine their personal and collective identity. Never before have people who lived in adopted lands had such immediate and pervasive access to information and entertainment from their birth countries. Communication and Identity documents how these newly available communication media have enabled migrants to maintain a connection with their ethnic culture, a psychological comfort zone that minimizes estrangement from Turkey, and exacerbates the separation from Dutch public life. Not only a superb case study on how the Netherlands' Turkish community defines itself, this remarkable book's message resonates across the wider European debate currently raging on immigration.

Author : Angela Condello
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 9781474450584

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New Rhetorics for Contemporary Legal Discourse by Angela Condello Pdf

Are the general and the particular separated in legal rhetorics? What is the function of singular events, facts, names in legal argumentation and what is their relationship to legal normativity? This collection of 11 essays takes a diachronic approach to address these questions from the perspective of contemporary legal discourse.

Author : Giuliana B. Prato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317174677

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Beyond Multiculturalism by Giuliana B. Prato Pdf

While the anthropological field initially shied away from the debate on multiculturalism, it has been widely discussed within the fields of political theory, social policy, cultural studies and law. Beyond Multiculturalism is the first volume of its kind to offer a comparative, worldwide view of multiculturalism, considering both traditional multicultural/multiethnic societies and those where cultural pluralism is relatively new. Its varied case studies focus on the intersections and relationships between cultural groups in everyday life using employment, identity, consumption, language, legislation and policy making to show the unique contribution anthropologists can bring to multiculturalism studies. Their work will be of great interest to scholars of race, ethnicity, migration, urban studies and social and cultural geography.

Author : Barbara Waldis
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643802798

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Styles of Multiculturalism in Mauritius by Barbara Waldis Pdf

What does multiculturalism mean in Mauritius? This question was the starting point of an ethnographic study on an island state in the Indian Ocean that had always been part of a global project and always been (post)colonial. The introduction of citizenship education at school in this Republic with its ethnically, religiously and linguistically diverse population serves as an example for the analysis of how different approaches to multicultural policy-making collide. The negotiations on the school subject illustrate the organisation of cultural difference by the state mainly through Indo-Mauritian and Creole nationalism.

Author : Kim Knott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317313687

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The Location of Religion by Kim Knott Pdf

The ways in which humans interact with their location is an important topic within sociological studies of religion. It is integral to the place of religion in secular society. 'The Location of Religion: A Spatial Analysis' offers an overview of the ways in which religion can be located within social, cultural and physical space. It examines contemporary spatial theory - notably the work of the influential sociologist Henri Lefebvre - and the many disciplines that have contributed to the spatial study of religion. This volume will be invaluable to all those interested in the role of religion in spatial analysis.

Author : Heinz Streib
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047432289

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Lived Religion - Conceptual, Empirical and Practical-Theological Approaches by Heinz Streib Pdf

This volume presents empirical studies, exegetical and historical investigations, contributions on practical theology and religious education gravitating around the concept of ‘lived religion,’ which suggests fresh attention to the body, perception, experience, everyday life, and biography.

Author : Abdulkader Tayob, Wolfram Weisse, Carel Aaron Anthonissen, Wolfram Weie
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : 3830963270

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Maintaining Apartheid or Promoting Change? by Abdulkader Tayob, Wolfram Weisse, Carel Aaron Anthonissen, Wolfram Weie Pdf

Author : Vijay Mishra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134096923

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The Literature of the Indian Diaspora by Vijay Mishra Pdf

Exploring the work of key writers from across the globe, this significant contribution to diaspora theory constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora.