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The Politics and Practice of Religious Diversity engages with one of the most characteristic features of modern society. An increasingly prominent and potentially contentious phenomenon, religious diversity is intimately associated with contemporary issues such as migration, human rights, social cohesion, socio-cultural pluralisation, political jurisdiction, globalisation, and reactionary belief systems. This edited collection of specially-commissioned chapters provides an unrivalled geographical coverage and multidisciplinary treatment of the socio-political processes and institutional practices provoked by, and associated with, religious diversity. Alongside chapters treating religious diversity in the ''BRIC'' countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China, are contributions which discuss Australia, Finland, Mexico, South Africa, the UK, and the United States. This book provides an accessible, distinctive and timely treatment of a topic which is inextricably linked with modern society''s progressively diverse and global trajectory. Written and structured as an accessible volume for the student reader, this book is of immediate interest to both academics and laypersons working in mainstream and political sociology, sociology of religion, human geography, politics, area studies, migration studies and religious studies.

This collection brings together for the first time a set of researchers with Habermas' core concepts of colonisation, deliberation and communication at the centre of their research methodologies. Full of insight and innovation, the book is an essential read for anyone wanting to know more about approaches to social theory and its application in research.

This book provides a deep analysis of the social, spatial and economic transformations of São Paulo in recent decades in terms of social structure, inequalities, demography, processes of space production and segregation. The resulting picture shows stability in segregation, intense spatial changes and less intense, but reconfigured social inequalities.

China is urbanizing at an exceedingly fast pace. China's urbanization process certainly provides opportunities for many individuals, but also presents challenges. This book provides a fascinating account of key challenges that dominate urban China today, including environmental justice, the plight of migrant workers, and housing and health care issues.

This volume gathers scholars from a range of disciplines - including sociology, philosophy, theology, law, genetics, gender studies, and history - to explore the conceptual fields related to concepts of "identity," as well as empirical aspects of "identities." It demonstrates how "identities," imagined or real, are challenging cultural traditions and national formations.

Bourdieusian Prospects contributes to scholarship on Bourdieusian sociology, bringing it face to face with other theoretical developments in a changing empirical world. Contributors ask what the contours of future Bourdieusian social theory might look like and begin to map this out, both travelling alongside and breaking with Bourdieu in the process.

This is the first book to critically compare the two social theorists and public intellectuals, Anthony Giddens and Manuel Castells. Providing detailed examinations of their theories, as well as blindspots in their work, it examines the impact of new communication technologies and globalization on contemporary society, including their contributions to contemporary social issues including climate change, political trust, and the recent and continuing global financial crisis.

How do we remember and make sense of our collective pasts? Recent answers have revealed deep fissures within the theoretical landscape of memory studies. Grappling with the issues of social differentiation and forgetting, this book seeks to bridge these gaps by focusing on the uncharted futuristic terrain of social memories.

This book examines how political and economic crises in the present trigger a selective forgetting and remodelling of the past. Leading European scholars intervene in debates on migration, multiculturalism and postcoloniality, showing how new regimes of historiography and memory culture reflect emerging patterns of discrimination and social segmentation in today¿s European societies.

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This volume is the starting point for rendering contemporary practice theory approaches useful for the analysis of political events and processes in a broader framework. The contributions in this volume demonstrate that praxeological research addresses issues of broad societal concern, beyond the formal policy sphere.