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Multicultural Secularism, Equality and Faith Schools: Muslim and Non-Religious Perspectives

Pier-Luc Dupont Picard Orcid Logo

Secular Studies, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 94 - 103

Swansea University Author: Pier-Luc Dupont Picard Orcid Logo

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In The New Governance of Religious Diversity, Tariq Modood and Thomas Sealy endorse the expansion of state funded faith schools as a way to better recognise, accommodate and include religious minorities. Drawing on the case of Britain, this commentary argues that faith schools’ far-reaching exemptio...

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Published in: Secular Studies
ISSN: 2589-2525
Published: Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2026
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa71718
Abstract: In The New Governance of Religious Diversity, Tariq Modood and Thomas Sealy endorse the expansion of state funded faith schools as a way to better recognise, accommodate and include religious minorities. Drawing on the case of Britain, this commentary argues that faith schools’ far-reaching exemptions from equality law in fact exacerbate Islamophobia and can hardly be reconciled with the authors’ egalitarian commitments. An alternative approach of removing the exemptions and making all schools religiously diverse would address internal tensions in Muslim demands and clear the path for new political alliances between Muslim and non-religious groups.
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Issue: 1
Start Page: 94
End Page: 103