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Morris reviews 'Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine' edited by Samuel H. Baron and Nancy Shields Kollmann.

This extended commentary engages in debate about the place of religion within multicultural social structures and the perceived risks and benefits of the incorporation of this within state and social policy. If social policy has indeed been extended from ethnicity to include religion, what are the implications of this? Key issues within the debate include the relationship between secular and religious identities and the kind of secularism that should inform the way in which the state is seeking to accommodate religious demands and identities in its engagement with particular communities, particularly ethnic minority communities. The commentary takes as its starting point an article published in 2011 in Critical Social Policy 31(3) by Singh and Cowden on 'Multiculturalism's New Fault Lines' and a response to this by Tariq Modood.

Résumé Le management a du mal à s'accommoder du thème de la religion. Pourtant, dans de nombreuses situations, le sujet s'impose aux pratiques managériales quand il s'agit de confronter la manière de faire de la finance, du marketing, de l'organisation du travail ou de la gestion des ressources humaines aux croyances des salariés ou au contexte des marchés. L'article explore comment la religion s'invite dans le management. Il examine ensuite comment le terme émerge au sein des organisations en prenant les habits plus discrets et consensuels de la spiritualité, dans le contexte anglo-saxon par exemple. Il propose enfin une troisième voie : si le management est une science humaine, il pourrait trouver dans le domaine religieux des intuitions anthropologiques sans doute utiles dans des temps de remise en cause des repères traditionnels.

Understanding religion from a material and corporeal angle, this book addresses the ways in which refugees practice their religions and convert or develop new faiths. It also evaluates how secular institutions in Europe frame and determine what is classified as religion according to the law, and delineate the limits of religious authority, religious practice, and religious speech. The question of nationalism and migration has been shaping the political landscape in Europe for more than a decade, resulting in a nationalist upsurge. This volume places the current trajectories of people from Asia and Africa who flee from conditions such as oppression and conflict, and who are seeking refuge in Europe in a broader historical and comparative perspective. In so doing, it addresses past experiences in Europe with the role of religion in both producing and accommodating refugees, in the aftermath of the Peace of Westphalia, World War II, and in the context of the Cold War.