Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-237) and index.

Introduction : struggles for inclusion and reconciliation in modern democracies / Bashir Bashir, Will Kymlicka -- Reconciliation reconceive d : religion, secularism, and the language of transition / Jonathan Van Antwerpen -- Accommodating historically oppressed social groups : delib erative democracy and the politics of reconciliation / Bashir Bashir -- Reconciling history and equal citizenship in Israel : democracy and th e politics of historical denial / Nadim N. Rouhana -- Act and fact : sl avery reparations as a democratic politics of reconciliation / Lawrie B alfour -- 'The very basis of civility' : on agonism, conquest, and reco nciliation / Paul Muldoon -- Under western eyes : into the heart of Afr ica, colonial ethnographic display, and the politics of multiculturalis m / Sonali Thakkar -- The jurisprudence of reconciliation : aboriginal rights in Canada / Mark D. Walters -- Gender and collective reparations in the aftermath of conflict and political repression / Ruth Rubio-Mar n.