Titlebook: Ethnocentric Political Theory; The Pursuit of Flawe Bhikhu Parekh Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusiv

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A Multicultural Perspective on Secularism,ers. The chapter questions this view, arguing that secularism is not neutral between religious and secular people, and that its policies inevitably impact differently on different religions and cannot be neutral between them either. Secularism is not itself a fundamental value but a way to achieve s

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Cultural Accommodation and the Criminal Law,the universally agreed evils to which culture is supposed to be irrelevant. The author suggests that the opposite view is more convincing. Culture defines the meaning of an action, and we cannot understand what an individual was doing when he acted in a particular manner without understanding his cu

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Ethnocentricity of the Nationalist Discourse, of the world and taking identical forms. This view gives Europe both too much importance and too much responsibility for the world’s ills. Nationalism did emerge in Europe, but every non-European country conceptualised it and blended it with local ideas in its own way and gave it a distinct form. I

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Religious Tolerance in a Comparative Perspective,does not apply to societies where these are not met. In some societies, for example, every constituent community is believed to have a right to lead its own way of life and others do not pass judgement on it. People live the way they do, and the question of tolerating or not tolerating them does not

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Religious Tolerance in a Comparative Perspective,ion tends to take too judgemental a view of others’ beliefs and practices, ignores the damage intolerance does to its perpetrators, and gives the tolerating person an unjustified moral superiority. In these and other respects it can benefit from a critical dialogue with other traditions.

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2662-6039 en different perspectives offers one possible way to counter this tendency. Seeking universally valid knowledge is a legitimate ambition, but Western political theory cannot realise it without the help of the non-Western as its critical interlocutor..978-3-030-11707-8978-3-030-11708-5Series ISSN 2662-6039 Series E-ISSN 2662-6047

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Book 2019 universalize the local. The political theorist makes universal statements about human beings, societies and states without making a close study of them, and about reason, tradition, human nature and moral ideals without appreciating how differently these are understood in different societies and tr

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