The Problem of Religious Diversity ― European Challenges, Asian Approaches

Could lessons from Asia, Oceania and the Middle East help Europe overcome the challenge of religious diversity?

Religious diversity is one of the toughest challenges that today's European societies face in their search for identity, equality and cohesion in an increasingly globalised world. This book engages critically with the different models and approaches for managing religion adopted in Europe, Asia and Oceania in order to seek answers to this pressing normative, conceptual and policy issue.

Anna Triandafyllidou is Professor at the European University Institute in Florence and is Senior Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy in Athens. She is author and editor of numerous books, including European Multiculturalisms: Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges (co-editor, Edinburgh University Press, 2011), What is Europe? (Palgrave, 2010) and Muslims in 21st-Century Europe (editor, Routledge, 2009).

Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. He is the co-editor of Multiculturalism and Interculturalism: Debating the Dividing Lines (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), Multiculturalism Rethought: Interpretations, Dilemmas and New Directions (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and European Multiculturalisms: Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges (Edinburgh University Press, 2011).