Routledge Handbook on the Governance of Religious Diversity
Edited By Anna Triandafyllidou and Tina Magazzini
Copyright Year 2021
Available for purchase from the publisher and Amazon as hardback, paperback, and e-book.
Written by members of the GREASE consortium, 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.
singularly ambitious … a useful resource for scholars with an interest in links between Islam, Christianity, nationalism and human rights
– Review by Pier-Luc Dupont in Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies
Watch video interview below with co-editors of the Routledge Handbook on the Governance of Religious Diversity
GREASE’s Anna Triandafyllidou and Tina Magazzini speak with Judd Birdsall, project director of the Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion & Diplomacy and a senior research fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. // Recorded April 15, 2021.
Table of Contents
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