• ISBN13: 9781474419093
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Politics and Current AffairsSociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Edinburgh UP
• Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh
• Publication Date: August 12, 2017
• Pages: 336
• Original Price: GBP 28.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 545 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Political Ideologies / Democracy

About the Book 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 Features

• Showcases high level scholarship from around the world - a truly intercontinental volume that disrupts the previous dominance of Euro- and West-centric viewpoints and analyses
• Brings together scholars from political theory, Islamic studies, sociology and law
• Distinguishes 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 nationhood
• Case studies cover Britain, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, Israel, as well as several comparative European studies

Modood, Tariq: - Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Triandafyllidou, Anna: - Professor Anna Triandafyllidou directs the Cultural Pluralism Research Area at the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, in Florence, Italy. She is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies.