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2021 ISSR Best Book Award (International Society for the Sociology of Religion) Transnational migration has contributed to the rise of religious diversity and has led to profound changes in the religious make-up of society across the Western world. As a result, societies and nation-states have faced the challenge of crafting ways to bring new religious communities into existing institutions and the legal frameworks. Regulating Difference explores how the state regulates religious diversity and examines the processes whereby religious diversity and expression becomes part of administrative landscapes of nation-states and people's everyday lives. Arguing that concepts of nationhood are key to understanding the governance of religious diversity, Regulating Difference employs a transatlantic comparison of the Spanish region of Catalonia and the Canadian province of Quebec to show how processes of nation-building, religious heritage-making and the mobilization of divergent interpretations of secularism are co-implicated in shaping religious diversity. It argues that religious diversity has become central for governing national and urban spaces.

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An excellent contribution to the scholarly literature on Western secularities and on the regulation of religion. --James Spickard author of Alternative Sociologies of Religion: Through Non-Western Eyes Fascinating and helpful...an absorbing and detailed study. --Roger Trigg author of Religious Diversity: Philosophical and Political Dimensions Marian Burchardt's Regulating Difference is historically informed, theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich. By juxtaposing Quebec and Catalunya, the book makes important contributions to the literature on secularism and small nations. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of nationalism, the sociology of religion and secularism, and politics and religion more broadly. --Genevieve Zubrzycki author of Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion and Secularism in Quebec Religious diversification and the rise of nationalism, coupled with increasing immigration and ever-contested state secularism, are dominant and far-reaching trends facing many societies today. Through an evocative comparison of Quebec and Catalonia, Marian Burchardt lucidly explores how these topics are framed in law, shaped by institutional practices and understood by political actors and ordinary members of the public. Regulating Difference is essential reading for anyone concerned with such profound issues marking our troubling times. --Steven Vertovec Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

An excellent contribution to the scholarly literature on Western secularities and on the regulation of religion. Fascinating and helpful...an absorbing and detailed study. Religious diversification and the rise of nationalism, coupled with increasing immigration and ever-contested state secularism, are dominant and far-reaching trends facing many societies today. Through an evocative comparison of Quebec and Catalonia, Marian Burchardt lucidly explores how these topics are framed in law, shaped by institutional practices and understood by political actors and ordinary members of the public. Regulating Difference is essential reading for anyone concerned with such profound issues marking our troubling times. Marian Burchardt's Regulating Difference is historically informed, theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich. By juxtaposing QuEbec and Catalunya, the book makes important contributions to the literature on secularism and small nations. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of nationalism, the sociology of religion and secularism, and politics and religion more broadly.

An excellent contribution to the scholarly literature on Western secularities and on the regulation of religion. --James Spickard author of Alternative Sociologies of Religion: Through Non-Western Eyes Fascinating and helpful...an absorbing and detailed study. --Roger Trigg author of Religious Diversity: Philosophical and Political Dimensions Religious diversification and the rise of nationalism, coupled with increasing immigration and ever-contested state secularism, are dominant and far-reaching trends facing many societies today. Through an evocative comparison of Quebec and Catalonia, Marian Burchardt lucidly explores how these topics are framed in law, shaped by institutional practices and understood by political actors and ordinary members of the public. Regulating Difference is essential reading for anyone concerned with such profound issues marking our troubling times. --Steven Vertovec Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

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Marian Burchardt is a professor of sociology at the University of Leipzig. He is the author of Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa.  

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