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Religious Diversity and the Challenge of Social Inclusion
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Abstract As societies have become religiously diverse in ways and extents not familiar in the recent histories of most, the issues of how to include this diversity and how to manage it, that is, questions about how to be a religiously diverse society have come to the fore. As a result religion has become par... view more
As societies have become religiously diverse in ways and extents not familiar in the recent histories of most, the issues of how to include this diversity and how to manage it, that is, questions about how to be a religiously diverse society have come to the fore. As a result religion has become part of the social policy conversation in new ways. It has also occasioned
new thinking about religions, their forms and the complexity of ways they are negotiated by adherents and the ways they are related to society, the state and each other. This issue of Social Inclusion explores these issues of social
inclusion in both particular settings and in cross-national comparative studies by presenting research and critical thought on this critical issue facing every society today. (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
multicultural society; religious group; social integration; social control; religious factors; religion; religious community; social cohesion; social participation; diversity
Classification
Macrosociology, Analysis of Whole Societies
Sociology of Religion
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 1-2
Journal
Social Inclusion, 4 (2016) 2
Issue topic
Religious Diversity and Social Inclusion
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution