Beyond Accommodation

Jennifer A. Selby is an associate professor of religious studies and an affiliate member of the Department of Gender Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is the author of Questioning French Secularism and co-editor of Debating Sharia: Islam, Gender Politics and Family Law Arbitration (with Anna Korteweg). Amélie Barras is an assistant professor in law and society at York University. She is the author of Refashioning Secularisms in France and Turkey: The Case of the Headscarf Ban and co-editor of Réguler le religieux dans les sociétés libérales? (with François Dermange and Sarah Nicolet).Lori G. Beaman is the Canada Research Chair in Religious Diversity and Social Change and a professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of Deep Equality in an Era of Religious Diversity and co-editor of Constructions of Self and Other in Yoga, Travel, and Tourism: A Journey to Elsewhere (with Sonia Sikka), Atheist Identities: Spaces and Social Contexts (with Steven Tomlins), and Varieties of Religious Establishment (with Winnifred Fallers Sullivan).

"In sum[...]Beyond Accommodation offers a useful contrast to the more politically oriented approach of reasonable accommodation. It shows the potential for ethnographic research to highlight the local particularities of secular political discourses and frameworks and, in doing so, to productively critique representations of secular neutrality claims that tend to reproduce a kind of 'view from nowhere'."- Samuel Victor (Anthropologica)

• Introduction1 Figures That Haunt the Everyday2 Knowledge Production and Muslim Canadians' Historical Trajectories3 Secularism in Canada4 Narratives of Navigation and Negotiation5 Mutual Respect and Working Out DifferenceConclusionNotes; References; Index