The New Governance of Religious Diversity

Debate with Tariq Modood.

Tariq Modood and Thomas Sealy’s The New Governance of Religious Diversity (Cambridge: Polity, 2024) provides a comprehensive framework for the study and discussion of relations between state and religion and the governing of minority religious groups.

Modood and Sealy provide a descriptive framework for the comparative study of how different countries handle issues of religion and religious minorities and a normative frame for discussing how these issues should be handled. 

Department of Communication hosts a debate on the central themes of the book. Participants will be:

• Tariq Modood, founding Director of the Bristol University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship and Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy, University of Bristol
• Brian Arly Jacobsen, Associate Professor, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen
• Lisbet Christoffersen, Professor Emerita, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University
• Sune Lægaard, Associate Dean, Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University

Moderator: Nils Holtug, Professor, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen