Urban Secularism
Urban Secularism While French la cit is often considered something fixed, its daily deployment is rather messy. Using an ethnographic approach, this book examines everyday secularism in the making.…
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Urban Secularism
While French la cit is often considered something fixed, its daily deployment is rather messy. Using an ethnographic approach, this book examines everyday secularism in the making. What might we learn if we study the governance of religion from a dynamic bottom-up perspective?
Which local factors play a role in those processes? How do city actors understand, frame and govern religious diversity? In Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe, Julia Mart nez-Ari o brings the reader closer to the entrails of la cit .
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