LEADER 04387nam 22004693a 450 001 9910476913603321 005 20260120164403.0 010 $a9783666567322 010 $a3666567320 024 8 $ahttps://doi.org/10.13109/9783666567322 035 $a(CKB)4100000011945152 035 $a(ScCtBLL)c1ff59ea-a778-45bd-9a44-463d4cf7f6fb 035 $a(oapen)doab69812 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011945152 100 $a20211214i20212021 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aGoverning Cemeteries $eState Responses to the New Diversity in The Netherlands, Norway and France$fRosemarie van den Breemer 205 $a1 ed. 210 $d2021 210 1$aGöttingen$cVandenhoeck & Ruprecht,$d2021 215 $a1 online resource (345 p.) 225 1 $aResearch in Contemporary Religion (RCR)$vVolume 30 311 08$a9783525567326 311 08$a3525567324 330 $aHow do states respond to the new diversity? Providing a striking image of societal accommodation through the prism of cemeteries, this book compares state responses to Muslim and humanist burial needs. Such accommodation is typically understood in terms of national models. French lai?cite?, Dutch pillarization, or Norwegian establishment, authors argue, explain how these countries react to newcomers. This book shows that, upon closer scrutiny, policy responses follow distinctive logics when compared between levels of governance. Furthermore, it shows that we have to look at material solutions as well. While indeed large legal and discursive national differences between states remain, in praxis they do the same. Synthesizing a religious governance framework from the social sciences with insights from post-olonial and religious studies, the book suggests a methodologically more coherent research agenda for the comparative study of religion, secularism, society and state. "This comparative and multi-level study of state responses is confronted with huge complexity. Its most important 'institutional (material and legal) and discursive policy outcomes' are summarized (277ff): First the legal frameworks, the legal and discursive outcomes reveal strong national differences in line with the respective state-organized religions legacies (laicite?, pillarization, establishment); second, the differences between national policies and existing provisions are less clear re. existing material provisions; third, embedded municipal practices show no national differences and no clear relevance of state-church legacies. However, discursively the study finds huge differences in how agents frame and talk about these practices.Almost all existing theoretical and methodological approaches - such as 'secularism' (including 'multiple secularisms', 'post-secularism') - do not take these complexities seriously into account, focusing on one concept only (wrong 'Leitdifferenz'), neglect different meanings of terms for agents in the field and the importance of different levels, times, issues and minorities. This study highlights minimally necessary complexity without drowning in complexity. It draws clear conceptual, theoretical and methodological lessons also in a broader sense for the study of governance of religious and cultural diversity and for the governance of migrations. It is a must read." (Veit Bader Professor Emeritus, University of Amsterdam) "Van den Breemer's fascinating study of the religious governance of cemeteries by secular state institutions proves that cemeteries have become a privileged site to observe empirically the various ways in which the dual accommodation of religious-secular and multi-religious diversity takes place in today's post-secular Western European societies." (Jose? Casanova, Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs) 410 $aResearch in Contemporary Religion (RCR)$vVolume 30 606 $aHistory / Europe$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory 615 7$aHistory / Europe 615 0$aHistory. 676 $a393.1 700 $aBreemer$b Rosemarie van den$f1973-$4aut$01888790 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910476913603321 996 $aGoverning Cemeteries$94528507 997 $aUNINA