1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790871203321

Titolo

Reasonable accomodation [[electronic resource] ] : managing religious diversity / / edited by Lori G. Beaman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, 2012

ISBN

0-7748-2277-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BeamanLori G

Disciplina

306.6

Soggetti

Religion and sociology - Canada

Religious minorities - Canada

Multiculturalism - Religious aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Exploring Reasonable Accommodation / Lori G. Beaman -- Religion and Immigration in a Changing Canada: The Reasonable Accommodation of "Reasonable Accommodation"? / Peter Beyer -- Religion in Court, Between an Objective and a Subjective Definition / Solange Lefebvre -- Identity Quietism and Political Exclusion / Avigail Eisenberg -- Veiled Objections: Facing Public Opposition to the Niqab / Natasha Bakht -- Public Responses to Religious Diversity in Britain and France / James A . Beckford -- Beyond Reasonable Accommodation: The Case of Australia / Gary D. Bouma -- One of These Things Is Not like the Other: Sexual Diversity and Accommodation / Heather Shipley -- Religion as a Multicultural Marker in Advanced Modern Society / Ole Riis -- Conclusion: Alternatives to Reasonable Accommodation / Lori G. Beaman.

Sommario/riassunto

Often when a religious minority challenges mainstream customs, the phrase "reasonable accommodation" is at the centre of the ensuing debate. But what exactly is reasonable accommodation? Does it achieve its goal of integrating the rights of religious minorities with those of mainstream society � or does it emphasize inequality? Reasonable Accommodation features eight essays that seek to define the meaning of reasonable accommodation within Canada and abroad. These probing explorations touch on current hot-button topics such as



women's right to wear the niqab in public, religious diversity in prisons, and accommodating sexual diversity. Woven throughout are questions and commentary about whether there really is a religious majority in Canada, how the idea of "shared values" obscures debate, and how tolerating religious differences simply isn't enough to guarantee equality. Reasonable Accommodation provides a much-needed critical assessment of this phrase and theorizes religious diversity and freedom of religion beyond the meaning of "tolerance" as it sometimes implies.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299778503321

Autore

Cardin Franco

Titolo

Elementary Symplectic Topology and Mechanics / / by Franco Cardin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-11026-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes of the Unione Matematica Italiana, , 1862-9113 ; ; 16

Disciplina

510

515.64

516.36

530.15

Soggetti

Mathematical physics

Geometry, Differential

Calculus of variations

Mathematical Physics

Differential Geometry

Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Beginning -- Notes on Differential Geometry -- Symplectic Manifolds -- Poisson brackets environment -- Cauchy Problem for H-J equations -- Calculus of Variations and Conjugate Points -- Asymptotic Theory of Oscillating Integrals -- Lusternik-Schnirelman and Morse -- Finite



Exact Reductions -- Other instances -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

This is a short tract on the essentials of differential and symplectic geometry together with a basic introduction to several applications of this rich framework: analytical mechanics, the calculus of variations, conjugate points & Morse index, and other physical topics. A central feature is the systematic utilization of Lagrangian submanifolds and their Maslov-Hörmander generating functions. Following this line of thought, first introduced by Wlodemierz Tulczyjew, geometric solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations, Hamiltonian vector fields and canonical transformations are described by suitable Lagrangian submanifolds belonging to distinct well-defined symplectic structures. This unified point of view has been particularly fruitful in symplectic topology, which is the modern Hamiltonian environment for the calculus of variations, yielding sharp sufficient existence conditions. This line of investigation was initiated by Claude Viterbo in 1992; here, some primary consequences of this theory are exposed in Chapter 8: aspects of Poincaré's last geometric theorem and the Arnol'd conjecture are introduced. In Chapter 7 elements of the global asymptotic treatment of the highly oscillating integrals for the Schrödinger equation are discussed: as is well known, this eventually leads to the theory of Fourier Integral Operators. This short handbook is directed toward graduate students in Mathematics and Physics and to all those who desire a quick introduction to these beautiful subjects.