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Following on from the in-depth discussions of the empirical material and the debates and arguments of previous chapters, this chapter discusses more directly the implications that emerge towards multiculturalism’s notion of recognition and relates this more fully to that of hospitality drawn from political theology. It considers multiculturalism’s shortcomings vis-à-vis religion and how and why recognition may in fact be misrecognition as a result of an ethno-religious lens. It also goes on to consider two further features of recognition and hospitality, judgement and dialogue. Here it suggests that despite the short-comings identified, multiculturalism retains relevance but needs to be made more hospitable within in its own terms of reference. The result is a series of challenges for Muslims, converts and majority society alike; challenges that are, moreover, underpinned by a substantive difference.
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The audience Bretherton addresses is as much the church itself as those that would restrict it in such ways as well as a caution over how worship can be instrumentalised for political purposes by some within the church.
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As has already been noted, a fuller consideration of Bretherton’s political vision of democratic politics is beyond the scope of this book.
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Sealy, T. (2021). Hospitable Multiculturalism. In: Religiosity and Recognition. Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75127-2_9
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