Table of Contents:
  • Multiculturalism and the bounds of civil society / William A. Barbieri
  • Community, culture and power : civil society, marginality, and social creativity / Charles R. Dechert
  • Constitution of a rational society : a Kautilyan text / Sebastian Velassery
  • Diversity and its conundrum : history of the psyche, portent of the sign / Carol M. DuprÚ
  • From exclusion to communication : a plea for political tolerance / SÚmou PathÚ Gueye
  • Contemporary Chinese immigrants and civil society / He Xirong
  • Social change, civil society, and tolerance : a challenge for the new democracies / Viorica Tighel
  • The nature, role, and challenge of civil society in selected African societies : a key to who belongs / Edward Wamala
  • Ethnicity, nationhood, and civil society in Kenya / Makokha Kibaba
  • The perversion of democratic pluralism : the difficult road to 'citizenship' in Africa / SÚmou PathÚ Gueye
  • Civil society : the politics of the concept / David Kaulemu
  • Between two circles : 'host' as a metaphor of identity in the language of inclusion and exclusion / Rosemary Winslow
  • The reconstruction of civil society : principles, process, and pedagogy of community-based approaches to ethnic variety and convergence / John A. Kromkowski.