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Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration

Anthropological Perspectives on Ethnicity and Religion

Herausgeber: Schlee, Günther; Horstmann, Alexander

Beschreibung

It goes beyond fashionable political trends of either celebrating ‘diversity’ or ‘integration’ by discussing the actual working of collective identification for larger societal complexes on the basis of empirical case histories. It deconstructs some of the powerful, but wrong assumptions on ethnic and religious identity It has a strong focus on relations It has a strong worldwide comparative perspective

Autor

Alexander Horstmann is Associate Professor in Southeast Asian Studies at the School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia. He has held visiting positions at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Mahidol University and EHESS in Paris. He is co-editor of the Berghahn Journal Advances in Research: Conflict and Society. He published Building Noah's Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities ( Palgrave, 2015) and Faith in the Future: Understanding the Revitalization of Religion and Cultural Traditions in Asia (Brill, 2012).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781785337154
• ISBN-10: 1785337157
• Artikelnr.: 48383984