RT Book
T1 Regulating difference: religious diversity and nationhood in the secular west
A1 Burchardt, Marian 1975-
LA English
PP New Brunswick Camden Newark London
PB Rutgers University Press
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1670375587
AB 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
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references (217-236) and index
CN BL640
SN 9781978809604
K1 Freedom Of Religion
K1 Cultural Pluralism
K1 Multiculturalism
K1 Emigration and immigration : Religious aspects
K1 Religions : Relations