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Political Responses to Cultural Conflict: Reflections on the Ambiguities of the Civic Turn

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When, on 30 September 2005, Jyllands-Posten published a series of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed it did so in the name of freedom of expression. Muslims and other religious groups, the editors claimed, had to accept that any religious symbol could be the object of satire and ridicule and that such irreverence of religion-taken-seriously was an essential aspect of a secularized public realm. Indeed, mocking religious figures was seen by many as a civic virtue, part of an informal style of Danish anti-authoritarianism, which newcomers had to learn (Rasmussen, 2005). Reactions to the unfolding events, including those of various dictatorial regimes in the Middle East and the plight of the cartoonists in hiding, opened deep divisions across traditional ideological lines, on which principles were involved (freedom of speech, blasphemy, religious tolerance/recognition, press responsibility, public civility) and what their meanings were.

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    Per Mouritsen (Associate Professor of Political Science) & Knud Erik Jørgensen (Professor of European Integration) (Associate Professor of Political Science) &  (Professor of European Integration)

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Mouritsen, P. (2008). Political Responses to Cultural Conflict: Reflections on the Ambiguities of the Civic Turn. In: Mouritsen, P., Jørgensen, K.E. (eds) Constituting Communities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582088_1

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