Beyond Accommodation: Everyday Narratives of Muslim Canadians

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Dear colleagues,
Amélie Barras, Lori Beaman and I are pleased to announce the publication of Beyond Accommodation: Everyday Narratives of Muslim Canadians (UBC Press).
Details and discount code are below.
With thanks for your support and interest,
Jennifer Selby
Dr. Jennifer A. Selby

Associate Professor
Department of Religious Studies
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John’s, NL A1C 5S7 Canada

Announcing the publication of Beyond Accommodation from UBC Press!

As a special introductory offer, UBC is offering 40% off of the book to my friends and colleagues.


Problems – of integration, failed political participation, and requests for various kinds of accommodation – seem to dominate the research on minority Muslims in Western nations.Beyond Accommodation offers a different perspective, showing how Muslim Canadians successfully navigate and negotiate their religiosity. The authors critique the model of reasonable accommodation, suggesting that it disempowers religious minorities by implicitly privileging Christianity and by placing the onus on minorities to make formal requests for accommodation. Through interviews, Muslim Canadians show that informal negotiation takes place all the time; scholars, however, have not been paying attention. This book proposes an alternative picture of how religious difference is woven into the fabric of Canadian society.

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