The Problem of Religious Diversity: European Challenges, Asian Approaches

Could lessons from Asia, Oceania and the Middle East help Europe overcome the challenge of religious diversity?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...

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Authors: Triandafyllidou, Anna (Author, Contributor) ; Modood, Tariq (Author, Contributor)
Contributors: Abdul Hamid, Ahmad Fauzi (Contributor) ; Bajpai, Rochana (Contributor) ; Cohen-Almagor, Raphael (Contributor) ; Foblets, Marie-Claire (Contributor) ; Gülalp, Haldun (Contributor) ; Ibrahim, Zawawi (Contributor) ; Levey, Geoffrey Brahm (Contributor) ; Mahajan, Gurpreet (Contributor) ; Parekh, Bhikhu (Contributor) ; Ramadan, Tariq (Contributor) ; Stepan, Alfred (Contributor) ; Weiler, Joseph H. H. (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
In:Year: 2022
Further subjects:B Cultural Pluralism
B Politics
B Church and state
B Secularism
B POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
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Summary:Could lessons from Asia, Oceania and the Middle East help Europe overcome the challenge of religious diversity?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. Key FeaturesShowcases high level scholarship from around the world – a truly intercontinental volume that disrupts the previous dominance of Euro- and West-centric viewpoints and analysesBrings together scholars from political theory, Islamic studies, sociology and lawDistinguishes secularism from atheism and democracy (or authoritarianism) Explores alternative conceptions of the secular arising from the search for a civic basis of national unity or from a religious sense of nationhoodCase studies cover Britain, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, Israel, as well as several comparative European studiesContributorsRochana Bajpai, SOAS, UK Raphael Cohen-Almagor, University of Hull, UKMarie Claire Foblets, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, GermanyGurpreet Mahajan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid, Universiti Sains Malaysia, MalaysiaHaldun GülalpZawawi Ibrahim, University Brunei Darussalam, BruneiGeoffrey Brahm Levey, University of New South Wales, Australia Tariq Modood, University of Bristol, UKBhikhu Parekh, House of Lords and University of Hull, UKTariq Ramadan, University of Oxford, UKAlfred Stepan, Columbia University, USAAnna Triandafyllidou, EUI, Italy
ISBN:1474419100
Access:Restricted Access
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/9781474419109

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