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The Problem of Religious Diversity : European Challenges, Asian Approaches / Anna Triandafyllidou, Tariq Modood.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781474419086
  • 9781474419109
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  • 200
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Religion and Religious Diversity Challenges Today -- Part I The Governance of Religious Diversity: Freedom of Religion or Freedom from Religion -- 2 Nation and Religion: Dangerous Liaisons -- 3 Multiculturalism and Moderate Secularism1 -- 4 Living with Religious Diversity: The Limits of the Secular Paradigm -- 5 Secularism: Public Space and Visible Diversity -- 6 Freedom of Religion in Europe: Finding the Golden Mean between Too Little and Too Much Protection -- 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 Perspective -- 8 The Governance of Religious Diversity in Malaysia: Islam in a Secular State or Secularism in an Islamic State? -- 9 Secularism and Multiculturalism in India: Some Refl ections -- 10 Secularism as Proto-Multiculturalism: The Case of Australia -- 11 The Monopoly of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel and Its Effects on the Governance of Religious Diversity -- 12 Secularism as a Double-Edged Sword? State Regulation of Religion in Turkey -- Part III Afterword -- Four Dogmas or Heresies in the Discussion of Secularism and Religion -- Rethinking Secularism -- Index
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
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Religion and Religious Diversity Challenges Today -- Part I The Governance of Religious Diversity: Freedom of Religion or Freedom from Religion -- 2 Nation and Religion: Dangerous Liaisons -- 3 Multiculturalism and Moderate Secularism1 -- 4 Living with Religious Diversity: The Limits of the Secular Paradigm -- 5 Secularism: Public Space and Visible Diversity -- 6 Freedom of Religion in Europe: Finding the Golden Mean between Too Little and Too Much Protection -- 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 Perspective -- 8 The Governance of Religious Diversity in Malaysia: Islam in a Secular State or Secularism in an Islamic State? -- 9 Secularism and Multiculturalism in India: Some Refl ections -- 10 Secularism as Proto-Multiculturalism: The Case of Australia -- 11 The Monopoly of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel and Its Effects on the Governance of Religious Diversity -- 12 Secularism as a Double-Edged Sword? State Regulation of Religion in Turkey -- Part III Afterword -- Four Dogmas or Heresies in the Discussion of Secularism and Religion -- Rethinking Secularism -- Index

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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

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