Introduction : struggles for inclusion and reconciliation in modern democracies / Bashir Bashir, Will Kymlicka -- Reconciliation reconceived : religion, secularism, and the language of transition / Jonathan VanAntwerpen -- Accommodating historically oppressed social groups : deliberative democracy and the politics of reconciliation / Bashir Bashir -- Reconciling history and equal citizenship in Israel : democracy and the politics of historical denial / Nadim N. Rouhana -- Act and fact : slavery reparations as a democratic politics of reconciliation / Lawrie Balfour -- 'The very basis of civility' : on agonism, conquest, and reconciliation / Paul Muldoon -- Under western eyes : into the heart of Africa, colonial ethnographic display, and the politics of multiculturalism / 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-Marn.