Creating Community Cohesion Religion, Media and Multiculturalism [Hardcover]

Using approaches from sociology, media and religious studies, David Herbert compares recent public controversies involving or implicating religion in the UK (England and Northern Ireland), the Netherlands and France.1. Troubled Multiculturalisms and Disrupted Secularities: Religion and Social Integration 'Crises' in North Western Europe in Comparative Perspective 2. 'Community Cohesion' and English Disruptions of the Multicultural Peace: The Northern Riots, White 'Backlash' and the 'Evocation of a Faith Sector' 3. Paradise Lost? The Collapse of Dutch Multiculturalism and the Birth of Islamophobic post-Liberalism 4. Religion and Social Integration in France 5. Northern Ireland: Sectarianism, Civil Society and Democratic Deepening Conclusion: Religion and Social Integration 'Crises' in North Western Europe

David Herbert is Professor of Religion and Society at the University of Adger, Norway. He is author of Religion and Civil Society (2003), Islam in the West: the politics of co-existence (2007) and co-editor of Social Media and the Sacred (forthcoming).