Social Challenges: Migration and Religious Diversity in Contemporary Cities
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "International Migration".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 March 2023) | Viewed by 437
Special Issue Editors
Interests: migration studies; migration policy; refugee studies; solidarity studies; immigrant religions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Growing religious diversity is a key implication of migration processes and the city scale represents a crucial setting in which it has developed. Immigrants have progressively intercalated their faiths into urban areas and suburbs, diversifying and transforming the sense and use of these territories.
Cities have, in this sense, become a crucial spatial level where post-secularisation trends affirm in contemporary societies. Migrants revitalize religions and find in them an important means of communitarian cohesion and activism, assigning new social, cultural and political meanings to cityscapes. Faith minorities indeed experience imaginaries, practices and networks that create new links and bridges between local and global processes, in which cities are a key crossroads. At the same time, this immigrant religious placemaking rewrites and renovates urban contexts by intertwining boundaries such as sacred and profane, private and public, and visible and invisible.
The existing institutional and civic relationships between State and religions are also questioned at the city level, and new and different forms of acknowledgment, negotiation as well as conflict arise in urbanity and local policies.
In this context, the Special Issue is calling for the attention of scholars to investigate the relationship between migration-driven religious diversity and cities. We aim to explore this nexus by inviting contributions focused on different religions and inspired by an interdisciplinary approach, which can create a dialogue and draw on globalisation, transnationalism, urban, religious and migration studies.
Prof. Dr. Maurizio Ambrosini
Dr. Samuele Davide Molli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- religious diversity
- diasporas
- migrant religions
- urban space
- city
- transnationalism
- immigration policy
- local policy
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