List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface: The Benefit of Analysing National Public Commissions on Diversity for Research and Policy-Making
Acknowledgements
Introduction: National Commissions on Diversity: When Reflective Processes Happen in Parallel within Several Nation-States
Part I: Britain, France, Quebec and Belgium
Chapter 1—National Commissions on Collective Identity and Diversity: Britain, France, Quebec and Belgium
Chapter 2—‘Stories are the secret reservoirs of values’: Personal Recollections of Two Commissions in the United Kingdom
Chapter 3—Assumptions of Power Subverted: Media and Emotions in the Wake of the Parekh Report
Chapter 4—From the Stasi (2003) to the Machelon Commission (2006): The Use of Commissions in Religious Regulation in France
Chapter 5—The Outcome of the Stasi Report in France: Much Ado About Nothing?
Chapter 6—The Bouchard-Taylor Commission in Quebec and Reasonable Accommodations: Collective Creation and Multilevel Reception
Chapter 7—Debating Intercultural Integration in Belgium: From the Commission for Intercultural Dialogue to the Round Tables on Interculturalism
Part II: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 8—The Commissions: Caught between Media Simplifications and Political Interests
Chapter 9—Control, Instrumentalization and Co-operation: The Relationship between Law and Religion in Four National Contexts
Chapter 10—Glocalizations of a Common Discourse: The United Kingdom and Quebec Compared in the Context of Four National Commissions on Diversity
Chapter 11—The Altar of Victory and the Crucifix: A Tale of Two Controversial Symbols
Chapter 12—A Coherent Public Policy on Religion in Norway? An Analysis of the 2013 Report ‘A Society Open to Religious and Worldview Diversity’
Chapter 13—A National Enquiry into Freedom of Religion and Belief in Australia
Chapter 14—Public-Policy Discourses on Selected Significant Issues of Cultural and Religious Diversity in Singapore
Chapter 15—The Religious Diversity Conundrum in Morocco: The Case of the National Commission for Dialogue on Civil Society and New Constitutional Prerogatives (2012)
Conclusion: On 'National Diversity Commissions'