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The Difference ‘Difference’ Makes
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This chapter argues that the idea of difference and diversity rely to some extent on fixed identity categories, and that they in fact often reify those categories in socially harmful ways. It delves into the possibility of a more subtle approach, first by examining the idea of identity rigidity from a number of angles, and second by reflecting on the ways in which religion can be recognized as a lived phenomenon within which individuals are flexible, sometimes acting in contradictory ways that defy an easy categorization of their religious identities. The chapter posits that focusing on the social construction of diversity and the conditions under which the language of diversity emerges (particularly its demarcation as a problem to be solved) is a useful enterprise. By recovering the non-events of the everyday wherein so-called ordinary people employ strategies to successfully navigate difference, an alternative narrative of religious diversity can be constructed.
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Beaman, L. G. (2017). The Difference ‘Difference’ Makes. Oxford University Press eBooks. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803485.003.0002
Beaman, Lori G. “The Difference ‘Difference’ Makes.” Oxford University Press eBooks, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803485.003.0002.
Beaman, Lori G. 2017. “The Difference ‘Difference’ Makes.” Oxford University Press eBooks. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803485.003.0002.
Beaman, L.G. (2017) ‘The Difference ‘Difference’ Makes’, Oxford University Press eBooks. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803485.003.0002.
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