(Mis)Reading Muslims and Multiculturalism

The death of multiculturalism: blaming and shaming British Muslims

Since 7/7, much has been said about the end, and at times, the ‘death’ of multiculturalism in both the public and political spaces. Considering whether much of this discourse is little more than a thinly veiled discourse about the presence, role and responsibilities of Muslims in today’s Britain, the paper takes the findings of the 1997 Runnymede report into Islamophobia and uses this as a prem...

ABSTRACTS Jews and Muslims in Germany: Culture, Law and Politics from the Age of Emancipation to the Time of Multiculturalism

Jews and Muslims in Germany: Culture, Law and Politics from the Age of Emancipation to the Time of Multiculturalism International Conference

Common Principles and Multiculturalism

Judgment on rightness and wrongness of beliefs and behaviors is a main issue in bioethics. Over centuries, big philosophers and ethicists have been discussing the suitable tools to determine which act is morally sound and which one is not. Emerging the contemporary bioethics in the West has resulted in a misconception that absolute westernized principles would be appropriate tools for ethical d...

Multiculturalism and Museums in China

Multiculturalism and the Australian Constitution

The poet Shelley once said that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.* 1 He was right. Societies are shaped by images, metaphors and tropes word-pictures of what particular societies stand for, what principles are important, where the societies are heading. These images are often constitutive in the sense that they provide a unifying language of public action, shape individuals...