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Introduction : rethinking political secularism : the multiculturalist challenge -- The racialisation of Muslims/Muslims as "race relations"actors -- Racism, culturalism and cultural racism -- Ethno-religious assertiveness out of racial equality -- Maintaining civility and the feelings of the hated -- Islamophobia and the struggle for recognition -- Pointing to a multicultural future : rethinking race, ethnicity, religion and britishness -- Multiculturalism and secularism -- Muslims, religious equality and secularism -- Multicultural citizenship and the Shari'a controversy in Britain -- Moderate secularism, religion as identity and respect for religion -- Multiculturalism and the "crisis of secularism" -- State-religion connexions and multicultural citizenship -- Multiculturalizing secularism -- Intercultural public intellectual engagement.

At a time when many public commentators are turning against multiculturalism in response to fears about militant Islam, immigration or social cohesion, Tariq Modood, one of the world's leading authorities on multiculturalism, provides a distinctive contribution to these debates. He contends that the rise of Islamic terrorism has neither discredited multiculturalism nor heralded a clash of civilizations. Instead, it has highlighted a central challenge for the 21st century - the urgent need to include Muslims in contemporary conceptions of democratic citizenship. In the second edition of this popular and compelling book, Modood updates his original argument with two new chapters. He reassesses the relationship between multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism and assimilation, demonstrating that multiculturalism is crucial for successful integration. He also argues that while multiculturalism poses a significant challenge to existing forms of secularism, this challenge should not be exaggerated into a crisis. In so doing, Modood adds new vigor to the claim that multiculturalism remains a living force which is shaping our polities, even as its death is repeatedly announced. -- Publisher description

At a time when many public commentators are turning against multiculturalism in response to fears about militant Islam, immigration or social cohesion, Tariq Modood, one of the world's leading authorities on multiculturalism, provides a distinctive contribution to these debates. He contends that the rise of Islamic terrorism has neither discredited multiculturalism nor heralded a clash of civilizations. Instead, it has highlighted a central challenge for the 21st century - the urgent need to include Muslims in contemporary conceptions of democratic citizenship. In the second edition of this po.

I rally behind Floyd's call to arms for an approach to political philosophy based on the broad hope 'that we can successfully treat certain forms of human action as expressions [of] normative preferences ripe for conversion into political principles'. I have doubts, however, about his use of social science: it is too selective and is selected on the basis of the avoidance of two social evils and thus does not answer the fundamental questions of political philosophy about the good life and a polity that is based on positive ideals and aspirations. Nor do I see that the avoidance of the normative aloofness of 'continental' critical theory requires the postulation of a universal human nature, a postulate that in any case is unavailable.

Istnieje szereg powodów, by raz jeszcze przemyśleć sekularyzm polityczny. Najbardziej znaczącym z nich jest wyzwanie wielokulturowości, z którym mierzy się Europa Zachodnia. Państwa zachodnioeuropejskie są obecnie bardzo skoncentrowane na wyzwaniach wynikających z różnorodności etniczno-religijnej będącej następstwem imigracji. Nowe osiedla muzułmańskie powstałe na przestrzeni ostatnich pięćdziesięciu lat znajdują się w samym centrum tego problemu. Okoliczności te zmuszają do nowego sposobu myślenia, nie tylko o kwestiach integracji społecznej, ale także o roli religii w odniesieniu do państwa i obywatelstwa. Fundamentalna kwestia, którą wielu uważało za dawno rozstrzygniętą, wyłania się ponownie z nową siłą i budzi nowe kontrowersje – jest nią sekularyzm polityczny, szczególnie w kontekście tolerancji, uznania i zarządzania. Autor niniejszego artykułu twierdzi, że postsekularyzm czy kryzys sekularyzmu mają w Europie Zachodniej dość zasadniczy związek z rzeczywistością wielokulturowości.

The article firstly examines the different conceptions of dialogue and reason within political theory, especially in the work of Rawls. Secondly we explore multicultural political theorists who have been motivated less by abstract reasoning by a sole reasoner or identical identity-less individuals and more by dialogue. For such multiculturalists, the principles of social justice are not known in advance or simply by reason, but are arrived at by conflict and learning, by dialogue and negotiation in circumstances of inequality and minority-claims making. In response to the multiculturalists, interculturalists allege that multiculturalism is too focused on the macro and the conflictual, and dialogue should be redirected to the micro and the cooperative. Although I welcome the interculturalists' focus on micro-relations, this does not require abandoning the idea of dialogue at the level of political controversies and public discourses. It is not an either–or choice because groups and intergroup problems exist in society and cannot be simply handled at a micro level of contact, interaction and sociability. The kind of macro-level dialogue that I am speaking of can also be understood as a form of public intellectual engagement that can contribute to societal dialogues.1
1This article is a reprint of Tariq Modood (2017) 'Intercultural public intellectual engagement' in Fethi Mansouri (ed) Interculturalism at the Crossroads: Comparative perspectives on concepts, policies and practice, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, France, 83-102.