Sustaining interfaith dialogue - A case study from Australia

Present-day Australia is often described as a successful example of a modern multicultural state.1\nA growing number of non-British and non-European migrants have helped transform the country\ninto an increasingly plural society. Intolerance and even outright racism persist in a few sectors,\nbut on the whole, Australia’s political, cultural and intellectual elites have accepted the need for\nmigration, even if they have not always rushed to embrace the concept of multiculturalism. The\nmost cursory of surveys of Australian cities, suburbs and even rural areas would readily reveal the\nextent to which the country has changed from the days of the ‘white Australia’ policy. Ethnic and\ncultural pluralism are just two measures of this new social pluralism; the growing diversity of religious expression is another very important dimension of Australia’s multicultural reality. As\nMichális S. Michael points out, a key ‘antidote to the politics of fear’ has been the range of interfaith and multi-faith councils and networks that were set up in the course of the last 10 years.2

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