Library Catalogue

Location

Public Safety Canada Library

Resource

Books & Reports

Call Number

JV 6035 I58 2009

Authors

• Bramadat, Paul, 1967-
• Koenig, Matthias.
• Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies.
• Metropolis Project.

Publishers

• Kingston, ON :  School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, c2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description

x, 340 p. ; 24 cm.

Note

Co-publ. by: McGill-Queen's University Press, in partnership with Metropolis.

Summary

This collaborative text explores the governance of religious diversity in Western immigration countries. It focuses on changes in the political, legal, and social responses to religious diversity that have resulted from increased international migration and the public visibility of new religious minorities in Europe, North America, and Australia.

Subject

• Religious pluralism - Political aspects - Western countries.
• Religious pluralism - Social aspects - Western countries.
• Religion and politics - Western countries.
• Religion and sociology - Western countries.
• Western countries - Emigration and immigration - Social aspects.
• Religious minorities - Western countries.
• Western countries - Emigration and immigration - Religious aspects.

Contents

Preface -- 1. Religious diversity and international migration: national and global dimensions / Paul Bramadat -- Part I. Theoretical Perspectives -- 2. Global migration and religious rebellion / Mark Juergensmeyer -- 3. The governance of religious diversity: theory, research, and practice / Veit Bader --
Part II. National Case Studies -- 4. Constructing religious pluralism transnationally: reflections from the United States / Peggy Levitt, Jessica Hejtmanek -- 5. Modus co-vivendi: religious diversity in Canada / Micheline Milot -- 6. In transition: the governance of religious and ethnic diversity in contemporary Australia / Desmond Cahill -- 7. Religions and governance in the United Kingdom: religious diversity, established religion, and emergent alternatives / Paul Weller -- 8. Islam, immigration, and France / Jocelyne Cesari -- 9. Accommodating religious diversity in Switzerland / Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka -- 10. Religious citizenship versus policies of immigrant integration: the case of Austria / Julia Mourô Permoser, Sieglinde Rosenberger --
Part III. Comparative and Global Perspectives -- 11. How nations-states respond to religious diversity / Matthias Koenig -- 12. The governance of religious diversity: the old and the new / Will Kymlicka --

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