Conceptualising the role of cities in the governance of religious diversity in Europe

Martínez-Ariño, Julia

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“…Celles-ci vont des documents réglementaires et des plans d'urbanisme aux mesures « soft » (légères) (Nye, 2004: 5) qui visent à changer le comportement des groupes religieux minoritaires par l'attraction et la séduction et non la coercition. Ces derniers comprennent, mais sans s'y limiter, des programmes de financement pour des activités « culturelles », des démonstrations de bonne entente entre les différentes communautés religieuses (Martínez-Ariño, 2018 ;Griera, 2019) et une invitation d'organisations confessionnelles à participer à des consultations municipales traitant des questions liées à la pratique de la religion (Griera et Forteza, 2011 ;Martínez-Ariño, 2018 ;.…”

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“…Au contraire, comme bon nombre des caractéristiques de la religion majoritaire restent imperceptibles aux yeux du public et sont complètement normalisées, elles ne sont pas interprétées comme un problème ni soumises aux mêmes restrictions que les groupes minoritaires. Par conséquent, les histoires religieuses locales sont importantes pour la gouvernance de la diversité religieuse (Martínez-Ariño, 2018).…”

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Adapter la religion : négocier les limites de la religion minoritaire dans les espaces urbains

Martínez-Ariño

Griera

2020

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Throughout Europe we observe a significant trend of increasing state intervention in the governance of religious practices and expressions. A growing number of policies and procedures seek to define and regulate how religion can, and cannot, be expressed in the public domain. In this article we explore how ideas of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ religion are translated into policies in urban contexts. We disentangle the social imaginaries that underlie the symbolic boundaries that distinguish between ‘acceptable’ and ‘unacceptable’ expressions of religiosity, and the repertoires of justification used to enforce them. Drawing on empirical research in cities in France and Spain, we argue that public expressions of religion are more likely to be deemed ‘acceptable’ in public as long as they meet a series of criteria, namely being perceived as: a) aesthetic and festive, rather than outrageous, b) discrete/decent/decorous rather than interpellating and, more importantly, c) exceptional rather than ordinary, d) freely chosen rather than imposed, e) cultural rather than pious, f) being legible with existing reference frameworks and categories rather than unintelligible. In other words, religious expressions are accepted, and considered to be acceptable, if they ‘fit’ or can be made ‘fit’ certain social expectations.

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Adapter la religion : négocier les limites de la religion minoritaire dans les espaces urbains

Martínez-Ariño

Griera

2020

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“…In addition, diversité has increasingly become a concept allowing explicit reference to ethnic difference in French politics; it "make[s] sayable the question of ethnicity and 'race'" (Escafré-Dublet and Simon 2009, 138). Diversité may have become for ethnic difference what laïcité has become for religious difference, a term allowing difference to be acknowledged without directly challenging 'republican' concepts (Sénac 2012, 150-5;Martínez-Ariño 2017). The notion of diversité was first used by actors demanding an increased presence of minorities in the media and political life.…”

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Vielfalt and diversité: how local actors in France and Germany evaluate immigration and socio-cultural heterogeneity

Schiller

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In both Germany and France, perceptions of immigration, diversity and their societal consequences have undergone important transformations in the past two decades. However, existing research has only partially captured such processes. The “grand narratives” of national approaches, while still influential, no longer explain contemporary realities. Further, analyses of national politics and discourses may not sufficiently reflect the realities across localities and society more broadly. While emerging in different national contexts, little is known about how diversity is actually perceived by political stakeholders at the urban level. Given the key role of immigration and diversity in current conflicts over Europe’s future, it is imperative to assess present-day conceptualisations of migration-related diversity among important societal actors.This article investigates perceptions and evaluations of socio-cultural heterogeneity by important societal actors in large cities. We contribute to existing literature by capturing an unusually broad set of actors from state and civil society. We also present data drawn from an unusually large number of cities. How influential is the perception of current society as heterogeneous, and what forms of heterogeneity are salient? And is socio-cultural and migration-related heterogeneity evaluated as threatening or rather as beneficial? Based on an original data set, this study explores the shared and contested ideas, the cognitive roadmaps of state and non-state actors involved in local politics.We argue that, in both German and French cities, socio-cultural heterogeneity is nowadays widely recognized as marking cities and often positively connoted. At the same time, perceptions of the main features of diversity and of the benefits and challenges attached to it vary. We find commonalities between French and German local actors, but also clear differences. In concluding, we suggest how and why national contexts importantly shape evaluations of diversity.

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“…Moreover, religious plurality settlement depends on local normative definitions of what is accepted or legitimate in the public sphere or not. A legal norm and a social norm co-exist and lead the governance of diversity in the city (Martínez-Ariño, 2018a). The present article intends to interrogate the increase of diversity through the settlement of religious groups.…”

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The City as a Continuous Laboratory for Diversity: The Case of Geneva

Monnot

2020

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After a long period of interest of religious plurality in the nation-state, the sociology of religion, with the impulse of the sociology of migration, has turned its attention to the city. This local level allows us to understand the issues of diversity governance. This article takes advantage of the literature on the governance of migration to apply it to the governance of religious diversity. Using data from the National Congregations Study and available data on Geneva, this article will first show how past responses to the emergence of diversity determine the path for future decisions. To this top-down regulation of religion responds one or more bottom-up strategies of religious communities to find legitimacy in a constraining environment. Based on the unit of the religious community, this study on Geneva provides a historical case of the evolution of diversity. This historical perspective provides the consistency of the current governance of religious diversity, illuminating the struggle for recognition of the minority groups.

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Conceptualising the role of cities in the governance of religious diversity in Europe

Cited by 26 publications

References 54 publications

Adapter la religion : négocier les limites de la religion minoritaire dans les espaces urbains

Adapter la religion : négocier les limites de la religion minoritaire dans les espaces urbains

Vielfalt and diversité: how local actors in France and Germany evaluate immigration and socio-cultural heterogeneity

The City as a Continuous Laboratory for Diversity: The Case of Geneva

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