The Problem of Religious Diversity

European Challenges, Asian Approaches

Anna Triandafyllidou, Tariq Modood (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2017
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474419093 (ISBN)

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This book engages critically with the different models and approaches for managing religion adopted in Europe, Asia and Oceania. A truly intercontinental volume, this collection brings together high level scholarship from renowned scholars and rising stars in the fields of political theory, Islamic studies, sociology and law.

Religious diversity is one of the toughest challenges that today’s European societies face in their search for identity, equality and cohesion in an increasingly globalised world. This book engages critically with the different models and approaches for managing religion adopted in Europe, Asia and Oceania in order to seek answers to this pressing normative, conceptual and policy issue. A truly intercontinental volume, this collection brings together high level scholarship from renowned scholars and rising stars in the fields of political theory, Islamic studies, sociology and law.

Professor Anna Triandafyllidou directs the Cultural Pluralism Research Area at the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, in Florence, Italy. She is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies. Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Notes on Editors

Notes on Contributors

1. Religion and Religious Diversity Challenges TodayAnna Triandafyllidou and Tariq Modood

Part I The Governance of Religious Diversity: Freedom of Religion or Freedom from Religion

2. Nation and Religion: Dangerous Liaisons Anna Triandafyllidou

3. Multiculturalism and Moderate SecularismTariq Modood

4. Living with Religious Diversity: The Limits of the Secular Paradigm Gurpreet Mahajan

5. Secularism: Public Space and Visible Diversity Tariq Ramadan

6. Freedom of Religion in Europe: Finding the Golden Mean between Too Little and Too Much Protection Marie-Claire Foblets

Part II The Governance of Religious Diversity in the Public Space: Perspectives from Asia and the Middle East

7. The Governance of Religious Diversity in the Public Space: Indonesia in Comparative PerspectiveAlfred Stepan

8. The Governance of Religious Diversity in Malaysia: Islam in a Secular State or Secularism in an Islamic State? Zawawi Ibrahim and Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid

9. Secularism and Multiculturalism in India:Some Reflections Rochana Bajpai

10. Secularism as Proto-Multiculturalism: The Case of Australia Geoffrey Brahm Levey

11. The Monopoly of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel and Its Effects on the Governance of Religious Diversity Raphael Cohen-Almagor

12. Secularism as a Double-Edged Sword? State Regulation of Religion in Turkey Haldun Gülalp

Part III Afterword

Four Dogmas or Heresies in the Discussion of Secularism and Religion Joseph H. H. Weiler

Rethinking Secularism Bhikhu Parekh

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Erscheinungsdatum	15.08.2017
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	560 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781474419093 / 9781474419093
Zustand	Neuware