Creating Community Cohesion: Religion, Media and Multiculturalism

by D. Herbert

Overview

Using approaches from sociology, media and religious studies, David Herbert compares recent public controversies involving or implicating religion in the UK (England and Northern Ireland), the Netherlands and France.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230236455
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/27/2013
Series:	Non-Governmental Public Action
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	277
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

David Herbert is Professor of Religion and Society at the University of Adger, Norway. He is author of Religion and Civil Society (2003), Islam in the West: the politics of co-existence (2007) and co-editor of Social Media and the Sacred (forthcoming).

Table of Contents

1. Troubled Multiculturalisms and Disrupted Secularities: Religion and Social Integration 'Crises' in North Western Europe in Comparative Perspective 2. 'Community Cohesion' and English Disruptions of the Multicultural Peace: The Northern Riots, White 'Backlash' and the 'Evocation of a Faith Sector' 3. Paradise Lost? The Collapse of Dutch Multiculturalism and the Birth of Islamophobic post-Liberalism 4. Religion and Social Integration in France 5. Northern Ireland: Sectarianism, Civil Society and Democratic Deepening Conclusion: Religion and Social Integration 'Crises' in North Western Europe