The Emergence of Religious Plurality in Australia

A Multicultural Society

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2590937
AutoresG Bouma (0000-0003-2093-5738, Monash University, autor correspondente), Gary D Bouma
Ano1995
Volume56
Fascículo3
Páginas285
Data de publicação1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociology of Religion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1069-4404 • E-ISSN: 1759-8818
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3711824
OpenAlexW2110330689
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas28
Referências citadas10

As a result of post-war migration Australia has become a religiously plural, multicultural society. Following a careful examination of recent changes in the religious demography of Australia, a comparison of Australia with Canada and New Zealand, and a discussion of the nature of religiously plural, multicultural societies, six factors (three demographic and three social structural) are identified as key in reducing the likelihood of religious intergroup conflict in Australia: The relatively small size of the minority groups vis-à-vis the dominant but nearly equal Catholics and Anglicans, the lack of overlap between ethnic and religious difference, the lack of ghettoization, the fact that religious difference is not politicized, a long history of sorting out intergroup conflict through legislation and courts, and the existence of effective organizations promoting positive intergroup relations

Ethnic group · Ethnology · Legislation · Multiculturalism · Plural · Political science · Religious diversity · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious Freedom and Discrimination