Religious Diversity in Australia - Living Well with Difference

This book documents the structure of religious diversity in Australia, and examines the strategies used in the context of the law, migration, education, policing, the media, and interfaith. Focusing on Melbourne and Tasmania, it articulates the challenges that confront religious and ethnic minorities, including discrimination and structural inequalities generated by Christian and other forms of privilege. It also articulates constructive strategies that are deployed, including encouraging forms of belonging, structured ways of negotiating disagreement, and respectful engagement with difference. Scholars across the West are increasingly attuned to the problems and promises of growing religious diversity in a global age, and currently lack good empirical research on the consequences of that diversity in the important Australian case. This therefore promises to provide a rich, well-researched, and timely intervention into an essential global conversation.>

About the author

Douglas Ezzy is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Australia.Anna Halafoff is Associate Professor of Sociology at Deakin University, Australia.Greg Barton is Research Professor in Global Islamic Politics in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, AustraliaRebecca Banham is a Research Fellow and qualitative researcher at the University of Tasmania, Australia

Product details

• Authors: Banha, Greg Barton, Douglas Ezzy, Anna Halafoff
• Assisted by: Rebecca Banham (Editor), Greg Barton (Editor), Barton Greg (Editor), Douglas Ezzy (Editor), Ezzy Douglas (Editor), Anna Halafoff (Editor), Halafoff Anna (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.03.2024
• EAN: 9781350334441
• ISBN: 978-1-350-33444-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Sociology, Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, c 1500 onwards to present day, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, law; migration; policing; education; interfaith