Governing Religious Diversity in Cities: Critical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367472238 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 150 str.

Julia Martinez-Arino

Opis

Governing Religious Diversity in Cities provides original insights into the governance of religious diversity in cities from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and drawing on a wide range of empirical examples in Europe and Canada.

Spis treści

Introduction: Governing religious diversity in cities: critical perspectives Julia Martínez-Ariño 1. Religion in urban assemblages: space, law, and power Marian Burchardt 2. Religious governance in the Spanish city: hands-on versus hands-off approaches to accommodating religious diversity in Barcelona and Madrid Avi Astor, Mar Griera, and Mónica Cornejo 3. Political opportunity structures and the activism of first- and second-generation Muslims in two Italian cities Giulia Mezzetti and Roberta Ricucci 4. Governing Islam in French cities: defining ‘acceptable’ public religiosity through municipal consultative bodies Julia Martínez-Ariño 5. Pacifying Muslims in Germany’s ‘City of Peace’: interreligious dialogue as a tool of governance in Osnabrück Ali Konyali, Laura Haddad, and Andreas Pott 6. Contract governance of religious diversity in a German city-state and its ambivalences Anna Körs 7. Reconsidering the spatiality of religion and the state: relationality and the mosque not built Tobias Müller 8. A bridge too far: yoga, spirituality, and contested space in the Pacific Northwest Paul Bramadat

O autorze

Julia Martínez-Ariño is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Religion at the University of Groningen. Her research interests are the governance of religious diversity, and the spatial strategies of religious groups in cities, in particular Jewish communities. She has published in international journals, including Current Sociology, Social Compass and Comparative European Politics.