1st Edition
Governing Religious Diversity in Global Comparative Perspective
1. Developing a framework for a global comparative analysis of the governance of religious diversity
Tariq Modood and Thomas Sealy
2. Western Europe and Australia: negotiating freedoms of religion
Thomas Sealy and Tariq Modood
3. State-religion relations in Southern and Southeastern Europe: moderate secularism with majoritarian undertones
Tina Magazzini, Anna Triandafyllidou and Liliya Yakova
4. Dynamics in state-religion relations in postcommunist Central Eastern Europe and Russia
Daniel Vekony, Marat Iliyasov and Egdūnas Račius
5. Negotiating religion-state relations in the MENA region: actors’ dynamics, modes, and norms
Georges Fahmi and Mehdi Lahlou
6. South and Southeast Asia: deep diversity under strain
Thomas Sealy, Zawawi Ibrahim, Pradana Boy Zulian and Imran Mohd Rasid
7. Diversities and dynamics in the governance of religion: inter-regional comparative themes
Thomas Sealy and Tariq Modood
Afterwords
Normative vs. Actual Secularism(s)
Haldun Gülalp
Some Reflections on State-Religion Relationships and Political Secularism in the Contemporary World
Gurpreet Mahajan
Biography
Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol, UK. He was awarded an MBE for services to social sciences and ethnic relations in 2001, made Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2004 and elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2017. He has held over 40 grants and consultancies, has over 35 (co-) authored and (co-)edited books and reports and over 200 articles and chapters. His latest book is Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism (2019) and as Special Issues co-editor, with T. Sealy, "Beyond Euro-Americancentric Forms of Racism and Anti-Racism (Political Quarterly, 2022). He has a YouTube Channel (Tariq Modood) and his website is tariqmodood.com.
Thomas Sealy is Lecturer in Ethnicity and Race in the School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. He researches and has published on multiculturalism, the governance of religious diversity, forms of racism, and Islamophobia and converts to Islam in Britain. His monograph, Religiosity and Recognition: Multiculturalism and British Converts to Islam, was published in 2021 and as Special Issue co-editor, with T. Modood, "Beyond Euro-Americancentric Forms of Racism and Anti-Racism (Political Quarterly, 2022.).
