How do we deal with difference personally, interpersonally, nationally? Can we weave a cohesive social fabric in a religiously plural society without suppressing differences?
This collection of significant essays suggests that to truly honour differences in matters of faith and religion we must publicly exercise and celebrate them. The secular/sacred, public/private divisions long considered sacred in the West need to be dismantled if Canada (or any nation state) is to develop a genuine mosaic that embraces fundamental differences instead of a melting pot that marginalizes. An ethics of difference starts with a recognition of difference, not as deviance or deficit that threatens but as otherness to connect with, cherish, and celebrate.
The book begins with the suggestion that our inability to come to terms with social plurality is not fundamentally the fault of religious differences, and that a public/private split inadequately deals with matters of basic difference. It then explores how encouraging people to live out their respective faiths may open new possibilities for respectful, honourable, and just negotiations of contemporary dilemmas arising out of the multicultural fabric of Canadian life.
Towards an Ethics of Community introduces readers to some of the most challenging and divisive dilemmas we face in this increasingly pluralistic, postmodern world — issues such as family and domestic violence, Aboriginal rights, homosexuality and public policy, and female genital mutilation. This is a book truly global in scope and significance.
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 147/.4
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0889203393 9780889206601
- LCCN
- BD394
- LCCN Item number
- T68 2000eb
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- 1 electronic text (ix, 226 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)gtp00521567 (OCoLC)696031740 (CaOOCEL)402428
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 8
- Acknowledgements 10
- Introduction: Exclusions and Inclusions: Dilemmas of Difference 12
- Part I: Dilemmas of Difference 22
- 1 Plotting the Margins: A Historical Episode in the Management of Social Plurality 24
- 2 Consequences of Liberalism: Ideological Domination in Rorty's Public/Private Split 48
- 3 Indoctrination and Assimilation in Plural Settings 62
- 4 "Woman" in the Plural: Negotiating Sameness and Difference in Feminist Theory 85
- 5 Religious Conflicts, Public Policy, and Moral Authority: Reflections on Christian Faith and Homosexual Rights in a Plural Society 102
- 6 Rethinking the Family: Belonging, Respecting, and Connecting 138
- Part II: Negotiations of Difference 162
- 7 Female Genital Mutilation: An Examination of a Harmful Traditional Practice in a Canadian Context 164
- 8 Violent Asymmetry: The Shape of Power in the Current Debate over the Morality of Homosexuality 181
- 9 Native Self-government: Between the Spiritual Fire and the Political Fire 197
- 10 On Identity and Aesthetic Voice of the Culturally Displaced 211
- Notes on Contributors 228
- Subject Index 230
- A 230
- B 230
- C 230
- D 230
- E 230
- F 231
- G 231
- H 231
- I 231
- J 231
- L 231
- M 231
- N 231
- O 232
- P 232
- R 232
- S 232
- T 233
- U 233
- V 233
- W 233
- Y 233
- Name Index 234
- A 234
- B 234
- C 234
- D 234
- E 234
- F 234
- G 234
- H 235
- I 235
- J 235
- K 235
- L 235
- M 235
- N 235
- O 236
- P 236
- Q 236
- R 236
- S 236
- T 236
- V 236
- W 236
