Creating Community Cohesion: Religion, Media and Multiculturalism

by David Herbert

Book Overview

Since the turn of the millennium, European societies have been shaken by the re-emergence of religion as a contested factor in public life. 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. Has there been a return of public religion? Is self-segregation the cause of community tensions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230236456
• ISBN13: 9780230236455
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"