The Politics and Practice of Religious Diversity

National Contexts, Global Issues
Herausgeber: Dawson, Andrew

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Politics and Practice of Religious Diversity engages with one of the most characteristic features of modern society. An increasingly prominent and potentially contentious phenomenon, religious diversity is intimately associated with contemporary issues such as migration, human rights, social cohesion, socio-cultural pluralisation, political jurisdiction, globalisation, and reactionary belief systems. This edited collection of specially-commissioned chapters provides an unrivalled geographical coverage and multidisciplinary treatment of the socio-political processes and institutional practices provoked by, and associated with, religious diversity. Alongside chapters treating religious diversity in the 'BRIC' countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China, are contributions which discuss Australia, Finland, Mexico, South Africa, the UK, and the United States. This book provides an accessible, distinctive and timely treatment of a topic which is inextricably linked with modern society's progressively diverse and global trajectory. Written and structured as an accessible volume for the student reader, this book is of immediate interest to both academics and laypersons working in mainstream and political sociology, sociology of religion, human geography, politics, area studies, migration studies and religious studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9780367870348
• ISBN-10: 0367870347
• Artikelnr.: 58441940

Autorenporträt

Andrew Dawson is Professor of Modern Religion in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, UK. He researches the relations between modern society and religion. His recent publications include: (as author) Sociology of Religion (2011) and Santo Daime: A New World Religion (2013); (as editor) Summoning the Spirits (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Politics and Practice of Religious Diversity: National
Contexts, Global Issues Part 1: The 'BRIC' Nations 1. Friends and Foes of
the 'Russian World': The Post-Soviet State's Management of Religious
Diversity 2. The Challenges of Managing Religious Diversity in India:
Between Hegemonic Domination and the Quest for Equality 3. Islam and the
State in Brazil: Reflections on the Freedom of a Minority Religion 4.
Religious Diversity and the State in China Part 2: Governance 5. Governance
and Religious Diversity in Australia: Multifaith Relations and Religious
Instruction in the State of Victoria 6. Managing Religious Diversity in
Finland: From Church Law to Governance Networks 7. Religious Diversity and
the Shifting Sands of Political Prioritization: Reflections on the UK
Context Part 3: Globalizing Modernity 8. The Globalization of Religious
Advocacy: Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy 9. Diversity, Death and
Divinity in Mexico: A Political-Religious Economy of La Santa Muerte 10.
State Regulation or 'Public Religion'? Religious Diversity in
Post-apartheid South Africa