Beyond Accommodation: Everyday Narratives of Muslim Canadians

Jennifer Selby,Amelie Barras,Lori G. Beaman

Beyond Accommodation: Everyday Narratives of Muslim Canadians
Format
Hardback
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Country
Canada
Published
1 September 2018
Pages
284
ISBN
9780774838283

Beyond Accommodation: Everyday Narratives of Muslim Canadians

Jennifer Selby,Amelie Barras,Lori G. Beaman

Problems - of integration, failed political participation, and requests for various kinds of accommodation - seem to dominate the research on minority Muslims in Western nations. Beyond Accommodation offers a different perspective, showing how Muslim Canadians successfully navigate and negotiate their religiosity. The authors critique the model of reasonable accommodation, suggesting that it disempowers religious minorities by implicitly privileging Christianity and by placing the onus on minorities to make formal requests for accommodation. Through interviews, Muslim Canadians show that informal negotiation takes place all the time; scholars, however, have not been paying attention. This book proposes an alternative picture of how religious difference is woven into the fabric of Canadian society.

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