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Mondal, Anshuman A. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6628-7572
(2016)
Articles of faith: Freedom of expression and religious freedom in contemporary multiculture.
Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 27 (1).
pp. 3-24.
ISSN 0959-6410
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Abstract
This article examines the relationship between freedom of religion and freedom of speech and expression within contemporary multicultural liberal democracies. These two fundamental human rights have increasingly been seen, in public and political discourse, in terms of tension if not outright opposition, a view reinforced by the Charlie Hebdo killings in January 2015. And yet in every human rights charter they are proximate to one another. This essay argues that this adjacency is not coincidental, that it has a history and that, in illuminating this history, it is possible to explore how the contemporary framing of these two rights as being in opposition has come about. Looking back to the framing of the First Amendment of the US Constitution, the essay offers an historical perspective that, in turn, facilitates a reappraisal and re-evaluation of these two liberties that is the necessary, albeit insufficient, predicate to the task of addressing the problematic of multicultural ‘crisis' in the contemporary liberal democracies of Western Europe, North America and Australasia, in which the presence of certain religious communities (Muslims, in particular) and the role of religion in public and political life more generally (and, conversely, of secularism) has assumed a central importance.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, , and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | freedom of religion,freedom of expression,free speech,tolerance,multiculturalism,islam,secularism,first amendment,liberalism,racial and religious hatred act 2006 (uk),accommodation,sdg 16 - peace, justice and strong institutions ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/peace_justice_and_strong_institutions |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Nov 2016 13:00 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Jul 2023 10:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/61378 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09596410.2015.1114240 |
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