How inclusive are European national identities of Muslim minorities and how can we explain cross-cultural variation in inclusiveness? To address these questions, we draw on large-scale school-based surveys of Muslim minority and non-Muslim majority and other minority youth in five European countries (Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey [CILS]; Belgium, England, Germany, the Netherlands, ...

Abstract This chapter focuses on religious diversity and cemeteries in France, comparing historical practice with the contemporary management of death diversity. Its starting point is present-day intransigence local authorities creating space for Muslims French municipal cemeteries. The proceeds to link these manifestations perspectives. In earlier times, Jews, Protestants free-thinkers were re...

This study examines the influence of religion on the extent of intervention in ethnic conflict using data from the Minorities at Risk ~MAR! dataset. Key questions include whether ethnoreligious minorities—which are defined here as ethnic minorities who belong to a different religion or a different denomination of the same religion as the majority group in a state—attract more intervention and w...

This paper uses a political opportunity approach for studying the relationship of minority groups to the political community in Britain. The argument is made that the British Race Relations approach established in the 1960s, has had an important effect which still shapes the patterns of political mobilisation and contention by different minority groups today. Original data on political claims-m...

This paper uses a political opportunity approach for studying the relationship of minority groups to the political community in Britain. The argument is made that the British Race Relations approach established in the 1960s, has had an important effect which still shapes the patterns of political mobilisation and contention by different minority groups today. Original data on political claims-m...

raising the concept of ‘tyrany of the majority’ by federalists , alexi de tocqueville and john stuart mill in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , they revealed a new form of tyrany which was uniqe for those who had experienced despotic regimes . with the critique of democracy baised on majority vote , the question of ethnic , religious and linguistic minorities , along with their rights and f...