Using the events surrounding "The Satanic Verses" controversy as a
starting point, Paul Weller offers an interesting examination of
the twenty-first century challenges posed by living with radical
difference, freedom of expression, and mutual respect.26th
September 2008 marks the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of
"The Satanic Verses" controversy - a controversy that in many ways
became paradigmatic for the following two decades.Taking as its
starting-point the opening two years of the controversy, Paul
Weller uses the events and arguments of those years as a lens
through which to view what later developed, both in relation to the
controversy itself, but also its wider entails, and the incidents
and issues through which aspects of the original controversy were
reprised. The anniversary of the controversy presents a good
opportunity to review the incidents, issues and debates of the time
in some historical perspective, while also connecting them with
subsequent incidents that have reprised some of the key themes,
such as the 'cartoons' controversy, the terror attacks of 9/11 and
7/7, and the killing of the Dutch filmmaker, Theo Van Gogh.The book
holds up a mirror for our times that will be of interest to
academics, politicians, students, and religious believers, as well
as to all who are engaged with the twenty-first century challenges
posed by living with radical difference, freedom of expression, and
mutual respect, with exploring the relationship between religion
and secularity, and with overcoming the threats posed by
religiously informed violence. Paul Weller is Professor of
Inter-Religious Relations at the University of Derby and Visiting
Fellow in the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture at
Regent's Park College, University of Oxford, UK. He is editor of
"Religions in the UK: Directory 2007-10", the 2001 edition of which
won the Shap Working Party on World Religions in Education prize
for 'an outstanding contribution to the teaching of world
religions'.
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