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Devotees use candles to light incense at the Bailin Monastery in Hebei province, China (Photo: Gareth Fisher)

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Old Bazaar, Skopje, Macedonia (Photo: Goran Janev)

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A typical street in the south of Mumbai, India (Photo: Reza Masoudi Nejad)

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At the hairdresser, Dormaa Ahenkro, Ghana (Photo: Boris Nieswand)

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A view of Jemaa el Fna, Marrakech, Morocco (Photo: Thomas Schmitt)

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Muslim women and Mexican travel agent, Astoria, Queens, New York (Photo: Steven Vertovec)

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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

Institute Colloquium „Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity“, Winter 2011/2012. The Colloquium will take place Thursdays between 14:00 and 15:30 in the Library Hall at Hermann-Föge-Weg 11. [more]

2 February 2012: Olivier ROY (Florenz) will give a lecture on "Religion and Culture: the Growing Gap". The talk will take place at 14.00 in the Library Hall at Hermann-Föge-Weg 11.

News & updates

Impressions



of the China Social Science Forum 2011: Religions and Chinese Contemporary Society, Beijing, December 7-9, 2011


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Boell Foundation publishes study on immigrants in local parliaments

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Prof. Karen Schönwälder was appointed as a member of the Integration Advisory Council

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Job Offers

Interview of the month

Interview with Amanda Wise (Sydney)

conducted by Cihan Sinanoglu

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 but of the lines or intersections of difference; and how these intersections then produce and overcome boundaries. In a sense, ‘Diversity is just a container word for me to look at the everyday lived reality of existing with ‘diverse others’.  ...

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Previous interviews

Interview with Andre Gingrich (Vienna)

On a general level, I agree with Ulf Hannerz's formulation in the last issue of the 2010 American Anthropologist, where he says that socio-cultural diversity is the key notion in socio-cultural anthropology. ...

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Interview with Lourdes Arizpe (Mexico)

I think that diversity is inherent to human experience. Even in seemingly homogeneous cultural groups there are many ways in which differences are established ...

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Interview with Loren Landau (Johannes- burg)

For me diversity is about different ways of being in space, particularly in urban space, space that itself is shaped by people's backgrounds ... 

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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.