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"The New Governance of Religious Diversity – A new Analysis"Velkommen til MF CASR Annual Lecture 2025 med Tariq Modood / Welcome to MF CASR Annual Lecture 2025 with Tariq Modood
// Arrangementet er på engelsk//
The event will also be streamed:
https://www.youtube.com/live/ORkXVMtJrVg
We at MF CASR are proud to announce that Professor Tariq Modood will deliver the MF CASR Annual Lecture 2025. Professor Modood is one of the world’s leading intellectuals on diversity and secularity, political multiculturalism, and the racialization of religion.
Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics, and Public Policy at the University of Bristol, UK. He is also the founder and director of the Bristol University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship and is regarded as a key figure in what is known as the Bristol School of Multiculturalism and Normative Sociology.
His research provides us with tools to understand how to balance religious diversity with social cohesion and national belonging, and offers deeper insights into debates on Islam and secularism in Europe.
This talk is based on Prof. Tariq Modood`s new book with Thomas Sealy, The New Governance of Religious Diversity (Polity, June, 2024). The book has been oriented by two questions: an empirical one of how do states govern religious diversity, and a normative one of how, in our view, religious diversity should be governed. Indeed, our approach is oriented by a position that sees the relationship between the empirical and normative as one of close entwinement.
Eschewing Euro-Americancentric perspectives that define secularism in terms of religious freedom in general or treat a particular country as a paradigm (typically USA or France), we argue there are multiple secularisms, present across different global contexts. Our analytical framework is not designed to merely capture specific countries or enable comparative empirical understanding. It also is the basis for a normative engagement with modes of secularism. This interdisciplinarity is, then, quite different from standard political theory as well as standard political science or political sociology.
We apply it to two regions: to four countries in Western Europe (Belgium, Britain, France and Germany) and three countries in South and South East Asia (India, Indonesia, Malayasia). Our strategy is to approach each region, indeed country, contextually and to argue that both the regions in our study have to be respected as embodying two different modes of governance, ‘moderate secularism’ and ‘pluralistic nationalism’ respectively. We do not rank one over the other or to make one approximate to the other, though we do think each can learn something from the other. We approach that learning by a multicultural normative evaluation, based on an understanding of multiculturalism developed by the Bristol School of Multiculturalism.
Responses will be given by Lena Larsen, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, and Sturla Stålsett, MF.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Gydas vei 4, 0302 Oslo, Norway, Gydas vei 4, 0363 Oslo, Norge,Oslo, Norway
