The Problem of Religious Diversity: European Challenges, Asian Approaches

by Anna Triandafyllidou (Editor), Tariq Modood (Editor)

Overview

Religious diversity is one of the toughest challenges that today’s European societies face in their search for identity, equality and cohesion in an increasingly globalised world. This book engages critically with the different models and approaches for managing religion adopted in Europe, Asia and Oceania in order to seek answers to this pressing normative, conceptual and policy issue. A truly intercontinental volume, this collection brings together high level scholarship from renowned scholars and rising stars in the fields of political theory, Islamic studies, sociology and law.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474419093
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	07/09/2017
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Professor Anna Triandafyllidou directs the Cultural Pluralism Research Area at the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European UniversityInstitute, in Florence, Italy. She is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies.

Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Table of Contents

Notes on Editors vii

Notes on Contributors ix

1 Religion and Religious Diversity Challenges Today Anna Triandafyllidou Tariq Modood 1

Part I The Governance of Religious Diversity: Freedom of Religion or Freedom from Religion

2 Nation and Religion: Dangerous Liaisons Anna Triandafyllidou 27

3 Multiculturalism and Moderate Secularism Tariq Modood 52

4 Living with Religious Diversity: The Limits of the Secular Paradigm Gurpreet Mahajan 75

5 Secularism: Public Space and Visible Diversity Tariq Ramadan 93

6 Freedom of Religion in Europe: Finding the Golden Mean between Too Little and Too Much Protection Marie-Claire Foblets 111

Part II The Governance of Religious Diversity in the Public Space: Perspectives from Asia and the Middle East

7 The Governance of Religious Diversity in the Public Space: Indonesia in Comparative Perspective Alfred Stepan 141

8 The Governance of Religious Diversity in Malaysia: Islam in a Secular State or Secularism in an Islamic State? Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid Zawawi Ibrahim 169

9 Secularism and Multiculturalism in India: Some Reflections Rochana Bajpai 204

10 Secularism as Proto-Multiculturalism: The Case of Australia Geoffrey Brahm Levey 228

11 The Monopoly of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel and Its Effects on the Governance of Religious Diversity Raphael Cohen-Almagor 250

12 Secularism as a Double-Edged Sword? State Regulation of Religion in Turkey Haldun Gülalp 273

Part III Afterword

Four Dogmas or Heresies in the Discussion of Secularism and Religion Joseph H. H. Weiler 299

Rethinking Secularism Bhikhu Parekh 320

Index 332