Format:
vii, 243 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781978809604
Content:
Religious Diversity, Secularism and Nationhood -- Theorizing Religious Diversity and Secularism -- Contesting Religious Diversity and Secularism -- Spatializing Religious Diversity: Urban Administration, Infrastructure and Emplacement -- The Limits of Religious Diversity: Regulating Full-Face Coverings -- Making Claims to Religion as Culture: The Rise of Heritage Religion
Content:
"Transnational migration has contributed to the rise of religious diversity and has led to profound changes in the religious make-up of society across the Western world. As a result, societies and nation-states have faced the challenge of crafting ways to bring new religious communities into existing institutions and the legal frameworks. Regulating Difference explores how the state regulates religious diversity and examines the processes whereby religious diversity and expression becomes part of administrative landscapes of nation-states and people's everyday lives. Arguing that concepts of nationhood are key to understanding the governance of religious diversity, Regulating Difference employs a transatlantic comparison of the Spanish region of Catalonia and the Canadian province of Quebec to show how processes of nation-building, religious heritage-making and the mobilization of divergent interpretations of secularism are co-implicated in shaping religious diversity. It argues that religious diversity has become central for governing national and urban spaces"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (217-236) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781978809611
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781978809628
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781978809635
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Burchardt, Marian Regulating Difference New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2020 ISBN 9781978809635
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Québec
;
Katalonien
;
Migration
;
Religiöser Pluralismus
;
Integration
Author information:
Burchardt, Marian 1975-
