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The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity is one of the foremost centers for the multi-disciplinary study of diversity, in its multiple forms, in today’s globalizing world.
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The collection of photographs on our website represents the fieldwork activities of our researchers. All social-science research at the Institute, particularly that requiring informed consent and involving visual materials, is designed to follow the ethical guidelines formulated by the American Anthropological Association. (Congregational singing in the dedication of Shimen’gen Church, Fugong County, 27 July 2014. Photo: Ying Diao)
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A Multimedia-Tool for Research, Teaching and Presentation For scientists who rely on visual data or data visualizations, the limitations of monitors, multiple monitor spans or projection facilities can present serious limitations for data gathering and the analysis and presentation of findings. Arising from MPI-MMG’s ‘GlobaldiverCities’ project, the Datarama is a unique research and presentation tool that provides a significant solution to the limitations of working with visual data.
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Working Papers
WP 20-04
Steven Vertovec:
Considering the work of ‘integration’
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WP 20-05
Paul Bramadat (University of Victoria):
Religion and Bioregionalism in Cascadia: The Trouble with Categories
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Issues
Dorman, B., & Korom, F.J. (eds). (2021). South Asian Nationalisms [Special Issue]. Asian Ethnology, 80(1). Link
Goossaert, V., & van der Veer, P. (Eds.). (2021). Réguler les pluralités religieuses: Mondes indiens et chinois comparés [Special Issue]. Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions, 193 Link
Schönwälder, K. (ed). (2020). Special Issue: Diversity in local political practice. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43(11). Link
Hänsch, V., Stasik, M., & Bekele Debele, S. (eds). (2020). "Temporalities of Waiting in Africa", in Critical African Studies, 12(1). Link
Journal Articles
McKearney, P., & Amrith, M. (2021). Care. Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. CEA. Link
Samanani, F. (2021). Power in a minor key: Rethinking anthropological accounts of power alongside London’s community organisers. Critique of Anthropology, 41(3), 303-319. Link
Taras Fedirko, T. F., Samanani, F., & Williamson, H. F. (2021). Grammars of liberalism. Social Anthropology, 29(2), 373-386. Link
Tu, S. (2021). In search of the ‘best’ option: American private secondary education for upper-middle-class Chinese teenagers. Current Sociology Link.
Miyamoto, M., Magnusson, J., & Korom, F. J. (2021). Animal slaughter and religious nationalism in Bhutan. Asian Ethnology, 80(1), 121-145. Link
Suerbaum, M. (2021). Embodying legal precarity: Living with ongoing short-term protection in Germany. International Migration. Link
Korom, F. J., & Magnusson, J. (2021). Guest editors’ introduction: South Asian nationalisms. Asian Ethnology, 80 (1), 5-18. Link
van der Veer, P. (2021). What transcends the nation? Asian Ethnology, 80 (1), 19-30. Link
Ngo, T. (2021). Bones of contention: Situating the dead of the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese border war. American Ethnologist (AE) doi:10.1111/amet.13015.
Boudou, B. (2021). Beyond the welcoming rhetoric: Hospitality as a principle of care for the displaced. Essays in Philosophy, 22(1-2), 85-101. doi:10.5840eip20212225.
Drouhot, L. G., & Garip, F. (2021). What’s behind a racial category? Uncovering heterogeneity among Asian Americans through a data-driven typology. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 7(2), 22-45. doi:10.7758/RSF.2021.7.2.02.
Vertovec, S. (2021). The social organization of difference. Ethnic and Racial Studies. doi:10.1080/01419870.2021.1884733.
Contributions to a collected Edition
Yamamura, S., & Lassalle, P. (2021). Notions and practices of differences: An epilogue on the diversity of entrepreneurship and migration. In N. Vershinina, P. Rodgers, M. Xheneti, J. Brzozowski, & P. Lassalle (Eds.), Global Migration, Entrepreneurship and Society (pp. 195-211). Bingley, U.K.: Emerald Publishing Limited. Link
van der Veer, P. (2021). Introduction: Refugees and religion. In B. Meyer, & P. van der Veer (Eds.), Refugees and religion: Ethnographic studies of global trajectories (pp. 1-11). London: Bloomsbury Academic. Link
van der Veer, P.(2021). German refugees and refugees in Germany. In B. Meyer, & P. van der Veer (Eds.), Refugees and religion: Ethnographic studies of global trajectories (pp. 34-47). London: Bloomsbury Academic. Link
Ngo, T., & Mai, N. T. T. (2021). In search of a Vietnamese Buddhist space in Germany. In B. Meyer, & P. van der Veer (Eds.), Refugees and religion: Ethnographic studies of global trajectories (pp. 105-122). London: Bloomsbury Academic. Link
Punathil, S. (2021). Between hope and fear: Migrant “illegality” and camp life in Assam, India. In B. Meyer, & P. van der Veer (Eds.), Refugees and religion: Ethnographic studies of global trajectories (pp. 198-216). London: Bloomsbury Academic. Link
Koenig, M. (2021). Religion. In B. Hollstein, R. Greshoff, U. Schimank, & A. Weiß (Eds.), Soziologie: Sociology in the German-Speaking World: Special Issue Soziologische Revue 2020 (pp. 331-343). Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. Link
Castro Varela, MdM., & Mohamed, S. (2021). Bodies on the outside: Artistic imagination in Afrofuturism. In D. Neugebauer (Ed.), Counter_Readings of the Body (pp. 57-64). Leipzig: Spector Books. Link
Mohamed, S., & Castro Varela, MdM. (2021). Intersektionalität und postkoloniale soziale Arbeit. In A. Biele Mefebue, A. Bührmann, & S. Grenz (Eds.), Handbuch Intersektionalitätsforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien. Link
Kang, J. (2021). Chinese Christian community in Germany: Home-making and Chineseness. In N. Cao, G. Giordan, & F. Yang (Eds.), Chinese religions going global (pp. 97-114). Leiden: Brill. Link
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