Creating Community Cohesion

David Herbert is Professor of Religion and Society at the University of Adger, Norway. He is author of Religion and Civil Society (2003), Islam in the West: the politics of co-existence (2007) and co-editor of Social Media and the Sacred (forthcoming).

• 1. Troubled Multiculturalisms and Disrupted Secularities: Religion and Social Integration 'Crises' in North Western Europe in Comparative Perspective 2. 'Community Cohesion' and English Disruptions of the Multicultural Peace: The Northern Riots, White 'Backlash' and the 'Evocation of a Faith Sector' 3. Paradise Lost? The Collapse of Dutch Multiculturalism and the Birth of Islamophobic post-Liberalism 4. Religion and Social Integration in France 5. Northern Ireland: Sectarianism, Civil Society and Democratic Deepening Conclusion: Religion and Social Integration 'Crises' in North Western Europe