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Migrant contract workers in Singapore remitting money to India (Photo: S. Vertovec)

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Religious diversity on display at a Singapore market (Photo: S. Vertovec)

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Globaldivercities project crew filming in a Singapore ‘hawker centre’ (Photo: S. Vertovec)

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Encounters at a shop in ‘Arab Street’, Singapore (Photo: S. Vertovec)

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A tour guide teaches a group of devotees how to correctly offer incense at the Bailin Monastery in Hebei province, China (Photo: Gareth Fisher)
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Incense hawkers outside the Bailin Monastery in Hebei province, China (Photo: Gareth Fisher)

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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

The Institute is dedicated to the multi-disciplinary study of diversity in historical and contemporary societies, particularly concerning ethnic and religious forms and dynamics. Such work entails basic empirical research aimed at theoretical development.

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Some upcoming events

21 May 2012: Workshop on Indian religiosities 22-23 May 2012: Working Group on Public Space and Diversity: Inaugural Steering Group Meeting 24 May 2012: Marc HELBLING: "Framing Immigration. Varieties of Arguments, Actors and Opportunity Structures" 25 May 2012: Adam Chau: Actants Amassing: What's Wrong with Durkheim and Mauss? 1-2 June 2012: "Religion, space and diversity – negotiating the religious ..."

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Institute Colloquium „Regulations of Cultural Diversity“, Spring/Summer 2012. The Colloquium will take place Thursdays between 14:15 and 15:45 in the Library Hall at Hermann-Föge-Weg 11. [Pdf]

24 May 2012: Marc HELBLING (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin) will give a lecture on "Framing Immigration. Varieties of Arguments, Actors and Opportunity Structures". The talk will take place at 14.15 in the Library Hall at Hermann-Föge-Weg 11.

News & updates

New Working Papers

R. Grillo / P. Shah WP_12-05

E. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh WP_12-06

D. Vigneswaran WP_12-07

L. Wiesemann WP_12-08

Data Visualization

MPI-MMG launches a set of interactive instruments to visualize the latest and most comprehensive global migration data.

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Online lecture

Olivier Roy (Florenz):

“Religion and Culture: the Growing Gap”

MMG, 02.02.2012

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Job Offers

There are currently no job vacancies.

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Calls for Papers

Researching migrants as a migrant researcher. CALL FOR PAPERS for a special issue

Interview of the month

Interview with Arjun Appadurai (New York)

conducted by Tam Ngo

First of all, in my early life in India, diversity was always a keyword because of the regular use of the slogan of “unity in diversity”. It was the theme that Jawaharlal Nehru and other nationalists used for ...

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Previous interviews

Interview with Nilüfer Göle (Paris)

I think that the word 'diversity' is misleading if we understand it as a reference to existing social differences. All societies are different. We can address the question to our democracies and ask ...

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Interview with John Eade (London)

Well, I suppose the question of how to define diversity goes back to differences in methodologies. I think this comes from methodological holism really, where you start ...

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Interview with Amanda Wise (Sydney)

For me, well my preference is to approach diversity through an ethnographic lens. So ‘diversity’ is a sort of container for I guess not just ethnic difference ...

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You will find interviews with Nancy Foner (New York), Ulrich Beck (München), Thomas Blom Hansen (Amsterdam), Robin Cohen (Oxford), Wong Ing Boh Diana (Kuala Lumpur), Miles Hewstone (Oxford), Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Oslo), Brendan O'Leary (Pennsylvania), Ewa Morawska (Essex) and Manuel A. Vásquez (Florida) here.

mpi-linked Journals: Current Issues


	Diversities	Global Networks

New mpi publications

Alexander Horstmann (Ed): "Borderlands and Border Studies in South-East Asia"

ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2011. Including "Editorial: Grenzregionen und Border Studies in Südostasien / Borderlands and Border Studies in South-East Asia", pp. 203-214, and "Sacred Spaces of Karen Refugees and Humanitarian Aid Across the Thailand-Burma Border", pp. 254-271.

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Karen Schönwälder: "A Bridge or Barrier to Incorporation? Germany's 1999 Citizenship Reform in Critical Perspective"

together with Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos, in: German Politics and Society, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2012, pp. 52-70.

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Peter van der Veer: "Religion, Secularism and National Develop- ment in India and China"

in: Third World Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 4, 2012, pp. 719-732.

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Matthias Koenig: "Das Recht auf Religions- freiheit – zur Entstehung eines neuzeitlichen Differenzierungs- musters"

In: Karl Gabriel, Christel Gärtner, Detlef Pollack (eds.), Umstrittene Säkularisierung: Soziologische und historische Analysen zur Differenzierung von Religion und Politik. Berlin: Berlin University Press, 2012, pp. 293-313.

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Further publications

Recent blog

Reflections on video log

Raji Matshedisho, February 2012

The video log was captured starting from the corner of Goldreich and Banket Streets into Berea Park entrance in Catherine Avenue. It was captured during the visit of the film crew (Dorte and Anna).

Firstly, at the moment I began filming I immediately felt a separation between the video camera’s viewfinder and my eyes. While the camera was facing towards the park ...

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New working papers

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