Religious Diversity in Australia

Living Well with Difference

Douglas Ezzy, Anna Halafoff, Greg Barton, Rebecca Banham, Douglas Ezzy, Anna Halafoff, Greg Barton, Rebecca Banham

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781350334441
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350334465
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

This book documents the structure of religious diversity in Australia and examines this diversity in the context of the law, migration, education, policing, the media and interfaith communities.

Focusing on Melbourne and Tasmania, it articulates the benefits and opportunities of diversity, alongside the challenges that confront religious and ethnic minorities, including discrimination and structural inequalities generated by Christian and other
forms of privilege. It articulates constructive strategies that are deployed, including
encouraging forms of belonging, structured ways of negotiating disagreement and respectful engagement with difference.

While scholars across the West are increasingly attuned to the problems and promises of growing religious diversity in a global age, in-depth empirical research on the consequences of that diversity in Australia is lacking. This book provides a rich, well-researched, and timely intervention.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title Page
• Dedication Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Maps
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction (Douglas Ezzy, Rebecca Banham, Anna Halafoff and Greg Barton)
• 1 Religious Diversity through a Super-Diversity Lens: National, Sub-regional and Socio-economic Religious Diversities in Melbourne
• 2 Attitudes towards Religious Diversity in Australia
• 3 Media Representations of Worldview Diversity
• 4 Migration and Religious Diversity
• 5 Worldview Diversity and Education in Australia
• 6 The Multifaith Movement in Australia: Representational and Relational Bodies
• 7 Legislation and Religious Diversity
• 8 Policing and Religious Diversity
• 9 The Evolution of Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) Policy and Programmes in Australia
• 10 Australian Religious Diversity in an International Context
• Index
• Copyright Page