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While French laicite is often considered something fixed, its daily
deployment is rather messy. What might we learn if we study the
governance of religion from a dynamic bottom-up perspective? Using
an ethnographic approach, this book examines everyday secularism in
the making. How do city actors understand, frame and govern
religious diversity? Which local factors play a role in those
processes? In Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversity in
Europe, Julia Martinez-Arino brings the reader closer to the
entrails of laicite. She provides detailed accounts of the ways
religious groups, city officials, municipal employees, secularist
actors and other civil-society organisations negotiate concrete
public expressions of religion. Drawing on rich empirical material,
the book demonstrates that urban actors draw and (re-)produce
dichotomies of inclusion and exclusion, and challenge static
conceptions of laicite and the nation. Illustrating how urban,
national and international contexts interact with one another, the
book provides researchers with a deeper understanding of the
multilevel governance of religious diversity.
This book examines interfaith dialogue in Europe and how
interreligious encounters are framed, expressed and practiced.
Throughout Europe religious identities have increasingly become
significant categories within debates on migration, cohesion,
diversity and belonging. By focusing on the spatialities,
materialities and practices of interfaith dialogues and encounters,
the volume sheds light on the heterogeneous domains where the
visibility and inclusion of religious and cultural differences are
currently negotiated and contested. The chapters draw on social
science perspectives and include a range of empirical case studies
from a variety of European settings. The contributions a) shed
light on the subjectivities, relations and modes of behaviour
produced, negotiated and contested in and through locally embedded
interfaith encounters and dialogue-oriented practices, b) observe
the power dynamics that shape those practices and encounters and c)
discuss their implications for the place(s) of religion in the
public sphere. Overall the book contributes to a better
understanding of how cultural, religious and political identities
are reconfigured across Europe.
While French laicite is often considered something fixed, its daily
deployment is rather messy. What might we learn if we study the
governance of religion from a dynamic bottom-up perspective? Using
an ethnographic approach, this book examines everyday secularism in
the making. How do city actors understand, frame and govern
religious diversity? Which local factors play a role in those
processes? In Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversity in
Europe, Julia Martinez-Arino brings the reader closer to the
entrails of laicite. She provides detailed accounts of the ways
religious groups, city officials, municipal employees, secularist
actors and other civil-society organisations negotiate concrete
public expressions of religion. Drawing on rich empirical material,
the book demonstrates that urban actors draw and (re-)produce
dichotomies of inclusion and exclusion, and challenge static
conceptions of laicite and the nation. Illustrating how urban,
national and international contexts interact with one another, the
book provides researchers with a deeper understanding of the
multilevel governance of religious diversity.
Governing Religious Diversity in Cities provides original insights
into the governance of religious diversity in urban contexts from a
variety of theoretical perspectives, and drawing on a wide range of
empirical examples in Europe and Canada. Religious diversity is
increasingly present and visible in cities across the world.
Drawing on a wide selection of cases in Europe and Canada, this
volume examines how this diversity is governed. While focusing on
the urban dimension of governance, the chapters do not examine
cities in isolation but take into account the interconnections
between urban contexts and other scales, both within and beyond the
borders of the nation-state. The contributors discuss a variety of
empirical examples, ranging from the controversies around the
celebration of the International Yoga Day in Vancouver, the mosque
not built in Munich, and the governance of Islam in cities in
France, Germany, Italy, Quebec and Spain. Adopting a critical
perspective, they shed light on the factors shaping different
governance patterns, and on their implications for various
religious groups. Ultimately, this book shows that governing
religious diversity is not a matter of black and white.
Contributing to a growing field of academic research that focuses
on the governance of religion in urban contexts, and providing
lines for future research, Governing Religious Diversity in Cities
will be of great interest to scholars in the sociology of religion,
religious studies and urban studies. The chapters were originally
published as a special issue of Religion, State & Society.
How might we best understand the relationship between the vibrant
religious landscapes we see in many cities and contemporary urban
social processes? Through case studies drawn from around the world,
contributors explore the ways in which these processes interact in
cities. This book argues that religious events - including rituals,
processions, and festivals - are not only choreographies of sacred
traditions, but they are also creative disruptions that reveal how
urban cultural hierarchies are experienced and contested. Exposing
the power dynamics behind these events, this book shows how
performative uses of urban space serve to destabilize dominant
genealogies and lineages around urban identities just as they lay
claims to cultural supremacy or heritage. Through exploring the
affective disruptions and political controversies caused by
religious events, the contributors engage theoretical discussions
in urban studies, the sociology of religion and the ethnography of
ritual. This book is a significant contribution to understanding
emerging patterns in contemporary religion and also for theories
related to heritagization, eventization, and urbanization.
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