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 News and Updates
Interview of the Month
Research Blog of the Month
Working Paper Series
New job offers
New Publications
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity was established in November 2007.
Its Managing Director and Director of the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity is
Professor Dr. Steven Vertovec.
Professor Dr. Peter van der Veer is Director of the Department of Religious 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. Projects will investigate multiple forms of diversity, how these have been shaped and defined, how they have been or could be governed, how different processes of inter-ethnic or inter-religious encounter unfold, how patterns and images of diversity change, and how relations between concepts of ethnicity and religion develop. As the new Institute grows, studies will not solely address migration-related contexts (in so-called migrant-sending, -transit and -receiving societies) but also contexts long characterized by different kinds of diversity, such as in South Africa, the Balkans, India and Brazil.
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News and Updates
Papers "Global Cities Conference"
Papers of the "Global Cities Conference" (9-12 August 2009) you can find
here.
Super-Diversity in Frankfurt
The outline of a concept for integration and diversity for the city of Frankfurt, developed by Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec and PD Dr. Regina Römhild, was presented to the public in a press conference on 1 October.
Seminar Series in Winter
On October 21st the new Seminar Series "Studying Diversity –
Theoretical and Methodological Issues" starts. For further informations click
here ( pdf, 133 KB).
Appointment third Director
Currently the  Max Planck Society is engaged in the process of appointing one more Director who will manage the Research Department devoted to the study of legal/political aspects of diversity.
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The MMG Working Paper Series launched in June 2009
For further information click
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Interview of the Month
Under Interview of the Month the Institute offers interviews with distinguished scientists, led by staff members of the Institute.
Karen Schönwälder interviewed Ulrich Beck (Munich). Ulrich Beck is Professor for Sociology at the University of Munich.
At MPI-MMG Prof. Beck will be working closely with the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity on several projects.
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Research Blog of the Month
From January 2009 we have created a ‘Research Blog of the Month’, in which researchers from the institute will take turns to informally describe the development of their projects and the challenges, delights and frustrations of conducting social scientific research.
In November Boris Nieswand comments on "Ethnographic infiltration of a public organisation".
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Working Paper Series
The MMG Working Paper Series launched in June 2009. For further information click
here
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New job offers
 Max Planck Research Groups (click
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New Publications
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The MMG Working Paper Series launched in June 2009
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Ngo, Tam [2009]: The short-waved Faith: Christian Broadcastings and the Transformation of the Spiritual Landscape of the Hmong in Northern Vietnam. In Lim, K.G Francis (ed). Mediated Piety: Technology and Religion in Contemporary Asia. Leiden: Brills.
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Alex, Gabriele [2009]: "Learning and Embodying Caste, Class and Gender. Patterns of Childhood in Rural Tamil Nadu". Chennai: National Folklore Support Centre (with financial assistance from Tata Education Trust).
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van der Veer, Peter [2009]: “Pain and Power. Reflections on Ascetic Agency”, in H.L. Seneviratne (ed) The Anthropologist and the Native. Essays for Gananath Obeyesekere. Florence: Studio Editoriale Fiorentino, 201-216
http://www.mmg.mpg.de/pdf/van_der_Veer_Pain_and_Power.pdf
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van der Veer, Peter [2009]: "The religious origins of democracy" in Gabriel Motzkin and Yochi Fischer (eds) Religion and Democracy in Contemporary Europe. Gießen (Lahn) : VVB Laufersweiler Verlag, 75 - 82
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van der Veer, Peter [2009]: “The comparative sociology of India and China”, Social Anthropology 17(1), 90-108
Link: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/122208908/PDFSTART
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Vertovec, Steven (Hg.) [2009]:
Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism: New Directions.
Für weitere Informationen klicken Sie hier .
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Vertovec, Steven / Wessendorf, Susanne (eds) [forthcoming]:
The Multiculturalism Backlash European Discourses, Policies and Practices.
Für weitere Informationen klicken Sie hier (Flyer).
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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
/ Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften
Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany
tel. +49/0 551 4956-0, fax +49/0 551 4956-173
email: info@mmg.mpg.de
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