Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
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. The Institute consists of three thematically-focused departments: the Department of Religious Diversity, the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity and the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics.
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(Congregational singing in the dedication of Shimen’gen Church, Fugong County, 27 July 2014. Photo: Ying Diao)
The DATARAMA
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.
News & Updates
In this sixth conversation in the Global Religious and Secular Dynamics Discussion Series, Peter van der Veer joined Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova to talk about his comparative work linking India, China, and the West, as well as his training of the next generation of anthropologists, social scientists, historians, and religious studies scholars working on religion in Asian global cities. Van der Veer also discussed his forthcoming co-edited volume, Refugees and Religion: Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories (2021), and the COVID-19 pandemic and its current geopolitical dynamics and trends.
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Call for Special Issue Papers
The editors of Global Networks invite you to submit papers for a special issue on 'Covid-19 and Global Networks: reframing our understanding of globalization and transnationalism '
Issues
Schönwälder, K. (ed). (2020). Special Issue: Diversity in local political practice. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43(11). Link
Dorman, B., & Korom, F.J. (eds). (2020). "Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia", in Asian Ethnology, 79(1). Link
Hänsch, V., Stasik, M., & Bekele Debele, S. (eds). (2020). "Temporalities of Waiting in Africa", in Critical African Studies, 12(1). Link
Journal Articles
Amrith, M. (2021). Ageing bodies, precarious futures: The (im)mobilities of ‘temporary’ migrant domestic workers over time. Mobilities. doi:10.1080/17450101.2021.1885834 
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Gandhi, A. (2021). Shock and shove: The embodied politics of force in India. South Asian History and Culture. doi:10.1080/19472498.2021.1878782.
Ma, Z. (2021). Encounters in Zomia: Dynamics of Ethnic Relations in the Pu'er Tea Trade in Southern Yunnan, China. China: An International Journal 19(1), 137-157. Link.
Moutselos, M., & Schönwälder, K. (2021). The immigrant presence in collaborative structures of urban politics. Governance. doi:10.1111/gove.12581.
Wang, X. (2021). Standardization, Bureaucratization, and Convergence: The Transformation of Governance of Religion in Urbanizing China. The Journal of Asian Studies, 1-19. doi:10.1017/S002191182000460X
Vertovec, S. (2021). The social organization of difference, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45. doi:10.1080/01419870.2021.1884733
Riedel, M. (2021). The difference a wire makes: Planning law, public Orthodox Judaism and urban space in Australia. International Journal of Law in Context, 1-19. doi:10.1017/S1744552320000415 Link
Contributions to a collected Edition
Goossaert, V., & van der Veer, P. (2021). Introduction. In V. Goossaert, & P. van der Veer (Eds.), Réguler les pluralités religieuses: Mondes indiens et chinois comparés (pp. 11-24). Paris: Ed. de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. 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
Sakti, V. K. (2020). The politics of loss and restoration: Massive bad death in the Oecussi Highlands. In L. Kent, & R. G. Feijo (Eds.), The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste (pp. 159-178). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Link
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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