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This chapter seeks to locate converts within the terms of multiculturalism, more specifically in reference to the Bristol School of multiculturalism and its central concepts of ethno-religious identity and recognition. It suggests that while these offer significant resources for the purposes of the arguments in the book, current formulations also present shortcomings in specific relation to religion and religious identity. This discussion is expanded in two directions: The first is in relation to challenges presented by interculturalism and everyday multiculturalism, it is argued that multiculturalism offers greater conceptual resources for the concerns of the book. The second orients the discussion towards concepts from the political theology of Luke Bretherton, and in particular the ideas of ‘hospitality’ and ‘liberative difference’. Political theology has largely been ignored in debates around multiculturalism but consideration of this offers a substantive critique of multiculturalism as it relates to religion and religious identity.
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See https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pms-speech-at-munich-security-conference, last accessed 5 August 2019.
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Multiculturalism has a more sustained engagement with literature on liberalism in political theory and racism, while political theology has tended to be in engagement with liberal political theory and political theology.
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Christ’s return and the completed transformation of creation.
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It should be noted that Siddiqui’s in primarily an account in the Sunni tradition (although she notes overlap with Shi’i thought), which is the tradition the majority of Muslims in Western Europe, including in the UK, follow in one form or another.
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Sealy, T. (2021). Multiculturalism and the Multi-Religious Challenge. In: Religiosity and Recognition. Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75127-2_3
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