1st Edition
Urban Secularism Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe
By Julia Martínez-Ariño
Copyright 2021
154 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
154 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
154 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introudction
1. Municipal Policy Instruments Regulating Religious Diversity
2. Actor Constellations: Who is in and Who is Out?
3. Vivre Ensemble and Other "Urban Myths of Conviviality"
4. Re-Shaping laïcité: How Urban Secularism Defines Religious Normality
5. From the National to the Urban and Back: How State Secularism Travels
Conclusion: Urban Secularism and the Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion
Biography
Julia Martínez-Ariño is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Religion at the University of Groningen. She is interested in the governance of religious diversity, apostasy in Catholic countries and the heritagisation of the Jewish past.
