Launch: The New Governance of Religious Diversity

Join CERC Migration for a virtual launch of a new book by former CERC Scholar of Excellence Tariq Modood and Thomas Sealy (both University of Bristol).

Religious diversity is integral to our modern-day world but it raises new challenges for governments. Tariq Modood and Thomas Sealy set out to better understand the complexity of changing societies around the world, asking:

• How do states include and accommodate religious diversity and should this change?
• What are the key difficulties facing states when it comes to governing religious diversity?

The authors draw on original research to present new ways of analyzing the governance of religious diversity in different regions and argue for a new statement of multiculturalism to address the challenges.

About the authors

Tariq Modood is Professor and Founding Director of the Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a leading global expert in the fields of multiculturalism and secularism.

Thomas Sealy is Lecturer in Ethnicity and Race at the University of Bristol. He is author of Religiosity and Recognition: Multiculturalism and British Converts to Islam.

Reviews

"Modood and Sealy’s account of multicultural secularism is powerful, coherent and compelling, bringing a fresh perspective on an issue of urgent global relevance. This is an important book that takes seriously both existing models of secularism and the diverse empirical realities they seek to address."

Mathew J. Guest, Durham University

"This book skillfully addresses one of the most pressing issues of today: how to deal with the increasing diversity of religions and ethnicities. It offers helpful analytic approaches to understanding the range of multiculturalisms in relationship to their religious and secular milieu, and advances solutions to the governmental task of administering a world of baffling social and cultural variations. Essential reading for anyone concerned about maintaining social order in our increasingly globalized world."

Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State