Description
This book presents comparative analyses of different modes of the governance of religious diversity and state-religion connections and relations in twenty-three countries in five world regions: Western Europe, Southern and South-Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, the MENA region, and South and Southeast Asia.
Debates and controversies around the governance of religious diversity have become important features of the social and political landscape in different regions and countries across the world. The historical influences and legacies, and the contemporary circumstances provoking these debates vary between contexts, and there have been a range of state and scholarly responses to how, and why, particular understandings and arrangements of state-religion relations should be preferred over others. The analyses of country cases and regions presented in this volume are based on extensive reviews of secondary literature, of legal and policy landscapes, and in some cases on interviews.
This book will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students interested in in the sociology of religion, religious studies, politics and migration studies. The contributions in this volume arise out of the Horizon2020 funded GREASE project. It was originally published as a special issue of Religion, State and Society.
Table of Contents
1. Developing a framework for a global comparative analysis of the governance of religious diversity
Tariq Modood and Thomas Sealy
2. Western Europe and Australia: negotiating freedoms of religion
Thomas Sealy and Tariq Modood
3. State-religion relations in Southern and Southeastern Europe: moderate secularism with majoritarian undertones
Tina Magazzini, Anna Triandafyllidou and Liliya Yakova
4. Dynamics in state-religion relations in postcommunist Central Eastern Europe and Russia
Daniel Vekony, Marat Iliyasov and Egdūnas Račius
5. Negotiating religion-state relations in the MENA region: actors’ dynamics, modes, and norms
Georges Fahmi and Mehdi Lahlou
6. South and Southeast Asia: deep diversity under strain
Thomas Sealy, Zawawi Ibrahim, Pradana Boy Zulian and Imran Mohd Rasid
7. Diversities and dynamics in the governance of religion: inter-regional comparative themes
Thomas Sealy and Tariq Modood
Afterwords
Normative vs. Actual Secularism(s)
Haldun Gülalp
Some Reflections on State-Religion Relationships and Political Secularism in the Contemporary World
Gurpreet Mahajan
