Recognition, Equality and Democracy

We respond to three reviews of our The New Governance of Religious Diversity (2024), by A. Sophie Lauwers, Pier-Luc Dupont, and Simon Thompson, respectively. Lauwers focuses on our rendering of the notion of recognition. From a critical religion perspective she asks us to consider how misrecognition is often intertwined with recognition. Dupont focuses on the issue of education, particularly faith schools, and from a liberal human rights perspective points to potential limitations for equality in our approach, as he sees them. Thompson is already ‘on board’ with our project, but going beyond it he offers a creative attempt to develop some of that project using analogies drawn from the political science of democratization. We respond to each of them in turn.