Beyond the Separation of Church and State: Explaining the New Governance of Religious Diversity in Spain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Separation of Church and State: Explaining the New Governance of Religious Diversity in Spain write by Maria del Mar Griera. This book was released on 2014. Beyond the Separation of Church and State: Explaining the New Governance of Religious Diversity in Spain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Interfaith Movement
The Interfaith Movement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Interfaith Movement write by John Fahy. This book was released on 2019-09-05. The Interfaith Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although its beginnings can be traced back to the late 19th century, the interfaith movement has only recently begun to attract mainstream attention, with governments, religious leaders and grassroots activists around the world increasingly turning to interfaith dialogue and collective action to address the challenges posed and explore the opportunities presented by religious diversity in a globalising world. This volume explores the history and development of the interfaith movement by engaging with new theoretical perspectives and a diverse range of case studies from around the world. The first book to bring together experts in the fields of religion, politics and social movement theory to offer an in-depth social analysis of the interfaith movement, it not only sheds new light on the movement itself, but challenges the longstanding academic division of labour that confines ‘religious’ and ‘social’ movements to separate spheres of inquiry.
The State and Religious Minorities in Sweden
The State and Religious Minorities in Sweden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The State and Religious Minorities in Sweden write by Linnea Lundgren. This book was released on 2023-10-24. The State and Religious Minorities in Sweden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, a revised version of Lundgren’s PhD thesis, offers a deepened understanding of the changes in the governance of religious diversity and the complex relationship between state and religion. Linnea Lundgren explores how the narrative of risk and resource came to be by looking beyond the developments in the last few decades (particularly since 9/11) and analysing how the governance of religious diversity has developed over time. In particular, she focuses on the case of Sweden that is often regarded as one of the most secular countries in the world, while simultaneously being recognised as one of the most multi-religious countries in Europe due to a rise in immigration. This book reveals how the state has had a central role in setting the terms and conditions that both enable and limit what religious communities can do, thus shaping the function and role of religion in the public realm. Through the analysis of an extensive number of government documents over a period of seventy years (1952-2022), Lundgren challenges the idea that many of the recent controversies concerning religious diversity are new. She argues that many of the discussions held today regarding the accommodation of Muslims are decidedly similar to previous discussions regarding the management of Catholics and the Free Churches in the 1950s and 1960s. She shows that the underlying fear has remained the same; that the individual’s rights can become weakened or diminished in religious communities and that religious minorities will challenge the common shared values of the society. In light of this Lundgren concludes that in order to understand what is really at stake in the debate regarding religious diversity in Sweden today, there is a need to look at underlying tensions that exist between the state, civil society and the individual, a relationship that differs considerably in the Nordic context compared to other contexts. This text appeals to students and researchers working in the sociology of religion and people who work with governance of religion, religion and civil society, and religion and law in Europe.
Religion and Prison: An Overview of Contemporary Europe
Religion and Prison: An Overview of Contemporary Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Prison: An Overview of Contemporary Europe write by Julia Martínez-Ariño. This book was released on 2020-07-07. Religion and Prison: An Overview of Contemporary Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers a European overview of the management of religious diversity in prisons and provides readers with rich empirical material and a comparative perspective. The chapters combine both legal and sociological approaches. Coverage for each country includes historical background, current penitentiary organization, and recent changes or trends. In their exploration of legal aspects, the contributors look at such factors as the status of prison chaplains and regulations concerning religious practice and religious freedom. These include meals, prayers, and visits. The sociological analysis examines religious discrimination in prison, church-prison relations, conversion and proselytism, and more. The European coverage includes countries for which such information is seldom available. The book offers readers a better understanding of governance of religion in prisons. This text appeals to students, researchers and professionals in the field.
Urban Secularism
Urban Secularism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Secularism write by Julia Martínez-Ariño. This book was released on 2020-12-30. Urban Secularism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While French laïcité 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 Martínez-Ariño brings the reader closer to the entrails of laïcité. 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 laïcité 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.
