Tolerance, Intolerance and Respect Hard to Accept [Hardcover]

Across European societies, pluralism is experienced in new and challenging ways. Our understanding of what it means for societies to be accepting of diversity has to therefore be revisited. This volume seeks to meet this challenge with perspectives that consider new dynamics towards tolerance, intolerance and respect.Introduction; Jan Dobbernack and Tariq Modood PART I: BEYOND TOLERATION? 1. Moral Minimalism and More Demanding Moralities. Some Reflections on 'Tolerance/Toleration'; Veit Bader 2. State Toleration, Religious Recognition and Equality; Sune L?gaard 3. Toleration and Non-Domination; Iseult Honohan PART II: A NEW INTOLERANCE 4. The Logics of Toleration: Outline for a Comparative Approach to the Study of Tolerance; Werner Schiffauer 5. Liberalism and the Diminishing Space of Toleration; Per Mouritsen and Tore Vincents Olsen PART III: CHALLENGES OF NEW CULTURAL DIVERSITY 6. National Identity and Diversity: Towards Plural Nationalism; Anna Triandafyllidou 7. Accepting Multiple Differences: the Challenge of Double Accommodation; Tariq Modood and Jan Dobbernack Conclusion; Jan Dobbernack and Tariq Modood Afterword; Bhikhu Parekh

The editors have done a fine job in bringing together a range of expert perspectives from across the social and political sciences. This book will appeal to those interested in the normative and empirical analysis of ethnic and cultural diversity. It is a timely addition to an important debate on precisely what it means to accept cultural diversity in modern liberal democratic states. (Daniel Savery, Political Studies Review, Vol. 13 (4), 2015)

The focus on how 'otherness' is defined in different ways, at different times, and in different national formations, with consequences for the shifting boundary between the tolerable and the intolerable, is especially valuable. But all the chapters have something thought-provoking to say, and the volume as a whole succeeds in drawing together the different intellectualƒV