Paul Weller is University REF and Research Student Academic Manager & Professor of Inter-Religious Relations at the University of Derby and Visiting Fellow in the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford, UK.

"This book reflects many years of research by Professor Paul Weller. It uses the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Rushdie Affair to reflect on the relation between Islam in all its various forms on European society and more generally on the nature of multicultural society. It will be widely referred to by all those interested" - Professor John Rex, The University of Warwick, UK

• Introduction: A Look in the Mirror Chronology of Key Events 1: The Contours of the ControversySalman Rushdie and The Satanic VersesLiterary and Critical ResponsesFrom Lobbying to Book-Burning and DemonstrationsThe Political and Legal ArenasThe Fatwa: Its International Context and RepercussionsThe Continuing Controversy2: Actions and Reactions in the ControversyMuslim ConcernsThe Spectrum of Muslim ResponsesRushdie's ReactionsPolitical ReactionsMedia and Social ReactionsChristian ReactionsOther Religious ReactionsInter-Faith and Cross-Community ReactionsThe 'Entails' of the Controversy 3: Through the Looking GlassThe Controversy as Magnifying GlassBelieving and BelongingReligion and the SecularReligion, Art and Values in ContentionLaw in Contention: Rights and RestraintsPolitical Representation and Participation in a Plural Society4: Echoes, Reverberations and 'Social Policy Shock'On the Other Side of Terror/The War on TerrorBombings and 'Hard' WarsCulture and 'Soft' Wars (Continued)'Glocalism', Globalization and Media AgeReligious Radicalism, 'Otherness', Freedom, Terror and Public PolicyIncitement to Hatred, Conspiracy Theories and IslamophobiaAnti-Catholicism and Islamophobia, Past and PresentSocial Policy Challenges, Legal Developments and Religious ResponsibilitiesConcluding Notes Towards a Common FutureA Wise Nation/World?Bibliography Index

Paul Weller is University REF and Research Student Academic Manager & Professor of Inter-Religious Relations at the University of Derby and Visiting Fellow in the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford, UK.

"This book reflects many years of research by Professor Paul Weller. It uses the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Rushdie Affair to reflect on the relation between Islam in all its various forms on European society and more generally on the nature of multicultural society. It will be widely referred to by all those interested" - Professor John Rex, The University of Warwick, UK

• Introduction: A Look in the Mirror Chronology of Key Events 1: The Contours of the ControversySalman Rushdie and The Satanic VersesLiterary and Critical ResponsesFrom Lobbying to Book-Burning and DemonstrationsThe Political and Legal ArenasThe Fatwa: Its International Context and RepercussionsThe Continuing Controversy2: Actions and Reactions in the ControversyMuslim ConcernsThe Spectrum of Muslim ResponsesRushdie's ReactionsPolitical ReactionsMedia and Social ReactionsChristian ReactionsOther Religious ReactionsInter-Faith and Cross-Community ReactionsThe 'Entails' of the Controversy 3: Through the Looking GlassThe Controversy as Magnifying GlassBelieving and BelongingReligion and the SecularReligion, Art and Values in ContentionLaw in Contention: Rights and RestraintsPolitical Representation and Participation in a Plural Society4: Echoes, Reverberations and 'Social Policy Shock'On the Other Side of Terror/The War on TerrorBombings and 'Hard' WarsCulture and 'Soft' Wars (Continued)'Glocalism', Globalization and Media AgeReligious Radicalism, 'Otherness', Freedom, Terror and Public PolicyIncitement to Hatred, Conspiracy Theories and IslamophobiaAnti-Catholicism and Islamophobia, Past and PresentSocial Policy Challenges, Legal Developments and Religious ResponsibilitiesConcluding Notes Towards a Common FutureA Wise Nation/World?Bibliography Index

Paul Weller is University REF and Research Student Academic Manager & Professor of Inter-Religious Relations at the University of Derby and Visiting Fellow in the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford, UK.

"This book reflects many years of research by Professor Paul Weller. It uses the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Rushdie Affair to reflect on the relation between Islam in all its various forms on European society and more generally on the nature of multicultural society. It will be widely referred to by all those interested" - Professor John Rex, The University of Warwick, UK

• Introduction: A Look in the Mirror Chronology of Key Events 1: The Contours of the ControversySalman Rushdie and The Satanic VersesLiterary and Critical ResponsesFrom Lobbying to Book-Burning and DemonstrationsThe Political and Legal ArenasThe Fatwa: Its International Context and RepercussionsThe Continuing Controversy2: Actions and Reactions in the ControversyMuslim ConcernsThe Spectrum of Muslim ResponsesRushdie's ReactionsPolitical ReactionsMedia and Social ReactionsChristian ReactionsOther Religious ReactionsInter-Faith and Cross-Community ReactionsThe 'Entails' of the Controversy 3: Through the Looking GlassThe Controversy as Magnifying GlassBelieving and BelongingReligion and the SecularReligion, Art and Values in ContentionLaw in Contention: Rights and RestraintsPolitical Representation and Participation in a Plural Society4: Echoes, Reverberations and 'Social Policy Shock'On the Other Side of Terror/The War on TerrorBombings and 'Hard' WarsCulture and 'Soft' Wars (Continued)'Glocalism', Globalization and Media AgeReligious Radicalism, 'Otherness', Freedom, Terror and Public PolicyIncitement to Hatred, Conspiracy Theories and IslamophobiaAnti-Catholicism and Islamophobia, Past and PresentSocial Policy Challenges, Legal Developments and Religious ResponsibilitiesConcluding Notes Towards a Common FutureA Wise Nation/World?Bibliography Index