Urban Secularism

Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe

Julia Martínez-Ariño (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

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Routledge
01 August 2022

Religion & politics; Society & culture: general; Sociology; Regional government

Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

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 processes? In Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe, Julia Martínez-Ariño brings the reader closer to the entrails of laïcité. She provides detailed accounts of the ways religious groups, city officials, municipal employees, secularist actors and other civil-society organisations negotiate concrete public expressions of religion. Drawing on rich empirical material, the book demonstrates that urban actors draw and (re-)produce dichotomies of inclusion and exclusion, and challenge static conceptions of laïcité and the nation. Illustrating how urban, national and international contexts interact with one another, the book provides researchers with a deeper understanding of the multilevel governance of religious diversity.

By: Julia Martínez-Ariño (University of Groningen Netherlands)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 235g
ISBN: 9780367696931
ISBN 10: 0367696932
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 01 August 2022
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"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"

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.