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<p> This fascinating, innovative work is read in one sitting. It challenges the reader's ideas: not only by giving a very solid analysis of the essentials of fundamentalism in our major religions and their position towards the state. It also analyses the core dilemmas of multiculturalism. And last but not least: despite de Kadt's obvious scepticism with regard to the univeralist pretention of human rights, many conclusions, like the plea for civil and political freedoms and the reduction of exclusion belong to the very core of the human rights debate. This debate demands an interdisciplinary approach, to prevent the doctrine of human rights to become fundamentalist in itself. The book leaves the reader with these confusing views, and is challenged to reconsider the easier ones that simplify the multiculturalism discourse. Food for thought, both for academics of different disciplines and for politicians. <p> --Jenny E. Goldschmidt, director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Utrecht University

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Emanuel de Kadt is professor emeritus in the department of cultural anthropology at Utrecht University. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Catholic Radicals in Brazil; Tourism: Passport to Development?; Promoting Equity: A New Approach from the Health Sector (with Renato Tasca); and The Public-Private Mix in Social Services: Health Care and Education in Chile, Costa Rica and Venezuela (with Elaine Zuckermann).

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