1st Edition
Routledge Handbook on the Governance of Religious Diversity
This book critically reviews state-religion models and the ways in which different countries manage religious diversity, illuminating different responses to the challenges encountered in accommodating both majorities and minorities. The country cases encompass eight world regions and 23 countries, offering a wealth of research material suitable to support comparative research. Each case is analysed in depth looking at historical trends, current practices, policies, legal norms and institutions.
By looking into state-religion relations and governance of religious diversity in regions beyond Europe, we gain insights into predominantly Muslim countries (Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia), countries with pronounced historical religious diversity (India and Lebanon) and into a predominantly migrant pluralist nation (Australia). These insights can provide a basis for re-thinking European models and learning from experiences of governing religious diversity in other socio-economic and geopolitical contexts. Key analytical and comparative reflections inform the introduction and concluding chapters.
This volume offers a research and study companion to better understand the connection between state-religion relations and the governance of religious diversity in order to inform both policy and research efforts in accommodating religious diversity. Given its accessible language and further readings provided in each chapter, the volume is ideally suited for undergraduate and graduate students. It will also be a valuable resource for researchers working in the wider field of ethnic, migration, religion and citizenship studies.
1. The Governance of Religious Diversity: Challenges and Responses
Anna Triandafyllidou and Tina Magazzini
Part I: Western Europe
2. Belgium: Devolved Federalism
Thomas Sealy and Tariq Modood
3. France: From Laïcité to Laicism?
Thomas Sealy and Tariq Modood
4. Germany: Federal Corporatism
Thomas Sealy and Tariq Modood
5. The United Kingdom: Weak Establishment and Pragmatic Pluralism
Thomas Sealy and Tariq Modood
Part II: Southern Europe
6. The Italian Case: ‘Baptised Laicità’ and a Changing Demographic
Tina Magazzini
7. Spain: All Religions are Equal, but Some are More Equal than Others
Tina Magazzini
8. Greece: The ‘Prevailing Religion’ and the Governance of Diversity
Eda Gemi
Part III: Central Eastern Europe and Russia
9. Hungary: Religion as the Government's Political Tool
Dániel Vékony
10. Lithuania: The Predicament of the Segregation of Religions
Egdūnas Račius
11. Slovakia: Fear of New Religious Minorities
Egdūnas Račius
12. Russia: Governance of Religion – What, How, and Why
Marat Iliyasov
Part IV: South-Eastern Europe
13. Bulgaria: Strong Cultural Legacies, Weak Institutions, and Political Instrumentalisation of Religion
Mila Mancheva
14. Albania: Legacy of Shared Culture and History for Religious Tolerance
Liliya Yakova and Leda Kuneva
15. Bosnia and Herzegovina: Persisting Ethno-Religious Divide
Gergana Tzvetkova and Rosalina Todorova
Part V: The MENA Region
16. Turkey: Whither Secularism?
Haldun Gülalp
17. Lebanon: Confessionalism and the Problem of Divided Loyalties
Yuksel Taskin
18. Egypt: Religious Diversity in an Age of Securitisation
H.A. Hellyer
19. Tunisia: Governing the Religious Sphere After 2011
Georges Fahmi
20. Morocco: Governing Religious Diversity
Mehdi Lahlou and Mounir Zouiten
Part VI: South and Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific
21. India: The Challenge of Being Plural and Multicultural
Gurpreet Mahajan
22. Indonesia: A Complex Experience of Religious Diversity Governance
Pradana Boy Zulian and Hasnan Bachtiar
23. Malaysia: A Secular Constitution Under Siege?
Zawawi Ibrahim and Imran Mohd Rasid
24. Australia: Diversity, Neutrality, and Exceptionalism
Michele Grossman, Vivian Gerrand and Anna Halafoff
25. Governing Religious Diversity Across the World: Comparative Insights
Anna Triandafyllidou and Tina Magazzini
Biography
Prof. Anna Triandafyllidou holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration at Ryerson University, Toronto. She was previously based at the European University Institute (EUI) where she held a Robert Schuman Chair on Cultural Pluralism in the EUI’s Global Governance Programme. She is Editor of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies.
Dr. Tina Magazzini is a Research Associate at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute, in Florence, where she researches different models of religious diversity governance. She holds a PhD in Human Rights and an MA in International Relations, and prior to joining the EUI worked with different research institutes and international organizations in the US, Belgium, Hungary, Spain and Zimbabwe.
'Overall the handbook proposes an up-to-date, internally coherent, sociologically ‘thick’ and historically informed analysis of inter-faith relations in a variety of legal and political systems, including authoritarian and hybrid regimes as well as consolidated democracies.'
Pierre-Luc Dupont, Ethnic and Racial Studies
