Governing Religious Diversity in Cities provides original insights into the governance of religious diversity in cities from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and drawing on a wide range of empirical examples in Europe and Canada.

Introduction: Governing religious diversity in cities: critical perspectives Julia Martínez-Ariño 1. Religion in urban assemblages: space, law, and power Marian Burchardt 2. Religious governance in the Spanish city: hands-on versus hands-off approaches to accommodating religious diversity in Barcelona and Madrid Avi Astor, Mar Griera, and Mónica Cornejo 3. Political opportunity structures and the activism of first- and second-generation Muslims in two Italian cities Giulia Mezzetti and Roberta Ricucci 4. Governing Islam in French cities: defining 'acceptable' public religiosity through municipal consultative bodies Julia Martínez-Ariño 5. Pacifying Muslims in Germany's 'City of Peace': interreligious dialogue as a tool of governance in Osnabrück Ali Konyali, Laura Haddad, and Andreas Pott 6. Contract governance of religious diversity in a German city-state and its ambivalences Anna Körs 7. Reconsidering the spatiality of religion and the state: relationality and the mosque not built Tobias Müller 8. A bridge too far: yoga, spirituality, and contested space in the Pacific Northwest Paul Bramadat