Religious Diversity in Australia: Living with difference

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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.

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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, Australia. Rebecca Banham is a Research Fellow and qualitative researcher at the University of Tasmania, Australia.