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Indian personal law : toward a comparative theoretical perspective -- Nationalism, recognition, and family formation -- Official nationalism, multiculturalism, and majoritarian citizen making : the formation of the postcolonial policy frame -- Recasting the normative national family : changes in Hindu law and commonly applicable matrimonial laws since the 1960s -- Minority accommodation, cultural mobilization, and legal practice : the experiences of Muslim law and Christian law -- Nationalism, multiculturalism, and personal law

Introduction: What difference does the difference make? Cultural pluralism as friendship -- From Berenstadt to Boston -- The talented among the tenth -- Locke and Kallen, student and teacher -- American pluralists, friends at Oxford -- The Plural is political -- Plural in culture, universal in religion -- Friendship rekindled, pluralism refined -- Locke's legacy, Kallen's memory -- Conclusion: Differences made.

Based on archival and sociological research, and speaking to issues in the study of culture, social movements, and legal change, The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States examines the often surprising history of controversies over contraception and abortion

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- List of contributors -- Preface -- What is pluralism? An introduction -- PART I Epistemic pluralism and democracy -- 1 From pluralism to liberalism: the long way around -- 2 Pluralism and deliberation -- 3 Social choice or collective decision-making: what is politics all about? -- 4 Liberalism, pluralism, and a third way -- PART II Political pluralism and reasonable consensus -- 5 Sideways at the entrance of the cave: a pluralist footnote to Plato -- 6 Pluralism and the possibility of a liberal political consensus -- 7 Modus vivendi liberalism, practice dependence and political legitimacy -- 8 A pluralist model of democracy -- 9 Rawls, religion, and the clash of civilizations -- PART III Cultures, religions, and politics -- 10 The practice of liberty -- 11 Sharing a conception of justice, sharing a conception of the good: liberalism as a pluralist theory vs. pluralism as a non-liberal theory -- 12 Pluralism and solidarity: non-authoritarian reasoning and non-fundamentalist attitude -- 13 Populism, liberalism and nationalism -- Index.

From outlawing polygamy and mandating public education to protecting the rights of minorities, the framing of group life by the state has been a subject of considerable interest and controversy throughout the history of the United States. The subject continues to be important in many countries. This book deals with state responses to cultural difference through the examination of a number of encounters between individuals, groups, and the state, in the United States and elsewhere. The book opens the concepts of groups and the state, arguing for the complexity of their relations and interpenet

Since the 1970s, sub-state national minorities in a number of developed liberal democracies have both reasserted their cultural distinctiveness and demanded recognition of it in legal and political terms. This book examines the role played by law in the negotiation of competing rights claims

Part I. Philosophical Pluralism. Ronald Sandler and Cynthia Townley / A Defense of Tolerance as a Moral Virtue.-- Nicholas H. Smith / Is Monotheism Compatible with Pluralism? Reflections on Richard Rorty's Critique of Religion.-- Hanako Koyama / Political Philosophy and Pluralism in a Globalised World.