Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Angelo Cardinal Scola -- Introduction / Antonio López -- Part I. Perceiving otherness, understanding difference. Recognition and culture : toward a model of intercultural subjectivities / Francesco Botturi -- The encounter and emergence of human nature / Carmine Di Martino -- We need a "relational reason" for different cultures to meet and build a common world / Pierpaolo Donati -- The link between "fundamentalism" and "relativism" / Costantino Esposito -- Retrieval of otherness in a technological culture / Antonio López -- Part II. Ordering social life. Human rights and cultural plurality : a possible path / Marta Cartabia -- Multiculturalism and ethically controversial questions : what form should regulation take? / Lorenza Violini -- The Abraham model of multicultural integration : Ger and Toshav / Joseph H. H. Weiler -- Part III. The recognition of God as the ultimate ground. Church, modernity, and multiculturalism : an extemporaneous reflection / Francisco Javier Martinez Fernández -- Interculturality and Christian mission in today's society / Massimo Borghesi -- War and the American difference : a theological assessment / Stanley Hauerwas -- Multiculturalism in Britain : the case of the recent debate over Sharia / John Milbank -- Knowing the truth through witness : the Christian faith in the context of interreligious dialogue / Javier Prades -- Multiculturalism and civil community inside the liberal state : truth and (religious) freedom / David L. Schindler.

Translated from the Italian.

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