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Steven Vertovec introduced the category of super-diversity in 2007. According to this notion, the nature of immigration brings with it “a transformative ‘diversification of diversity’ not just in terms of bringing more ethnicities and countries of origin, but also with respect to a multiplication of significant variables [that include] differential immigration statuses and their concomitant entitlements and restrictions of rights, divergent labour market experiences, discrete gender and age profiles, patterns of spatial distribution, and mixed local area responses by service providers and residents.”

Religion has recently gained more prominence in debates around migration-driven super-diversity due to issues of secularization and the re-enchantment of the world and the increasing presence of migrant religions and new religious movements. While anthropologists have traditionally focused on conflicts, some scholars have recently explored the role of religion in peacebuilding process, taking into account the fact that religious spaces are produced through the labor of ritualization and interpretations.

Vertovec claims that, if on the one hand super-diversity could entail patterns of inequality and prejudice, emergent forms of racism and segregation, on the other it could challenge these negative features in increasingly complex, composite, and stratified societies. Despite certain ambiguities, the religious super-diversity could lead to greater interaction, to the development of convivial and cosmopolitan identities, and contribute to the building of a peaceful coexistence (Vertovec 2019).

This book explores the relation between religious super-diversity and peacebuilding from an anthropological perspective using both theory and specific case studies.

Published: Mar 1, 2026

Book Contributors

• Editor - Alessandro Saggioro (alessandro.saggioro@uniroma1.it - asaggioro) 'Sapienza University, Rome'
• Editor - Carmelo Russo (carmelo.russo@uniroma1.it - crusso) 'Sapienza University, Rome'
• Author - Andrea Priori (andrea.priori@sk.hs-fulda.de - apriori) 'Fulda University of Applied Sciences'
• Author - Dionigi Albera (Albera@mmsh.univ-aix.fr - dalbera) 'Institut d’Ethnologie Méditerranéenne, Européenne et Comparative, Aix-en-Provence'
• Author - Mariachiara Giorda (Mariachiara.giorda@uniroma3.it - mgiorda) 'University of Roma Tre'
• Author - Roberto Rizzo (roberto.rizzo@mail.com - nasi-goreng69) 'University of Milan-Bicocca'
• Author - Giovanni Cordova (giovanni.cordova@unict.it - gcordova) 'University of Catania'
• Author - Valeria Giampietri (giampietri.1754113@studenti.uniroma1.it - vgiampietri) 'Sapienza University, Rome'
• Author - Randa Khalil (randa.khalil@uniroma1.it - rkhalil) 'Sapienza University, Rome'
• Author - Ludovica Tozzi (ludovicaa.tozzi@gmail.com - ltozzi) 'Sapienza University, Rome'
• Author - Davide Torri (davide.torri@uniroma1.it - Torri1429393806) 'Sapienza University, Rome'
• Author - Viviana Schiavo (v.schiavo@unior.it - vschiavo) 'University of Naples “L’Orientale”'
• Author - Yuqing Du (d.yuqing@yahoo.com - ydu) 'ShanghaiTech University'

Series

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Section	Chapter	Authors
Chapter 1
	Religious Diversity, Plurality and Pluralism: Towards an Analytical Grid	Dionigi Albera, Mariachiara Giorda
Chapter 2
	‘Out-of-place’ Muslims: Public Islam and Youth Activism in Sites of Modernity	Andrea Priori
Chapter 3
	Nonviolence and Interreligious Dialogue in Islam: The Case of Jawdat Said	Viviana Schiavo
Chapter 4
	Super-diverse Ancestors: Cemeterial Recollections as Practices of Coexistence in Rural Java	Roberto Rizzo
Chapter 5
	Narrating the Past and the Future: Religious Super-diversity Formation of Catholic Communities in Vietnam	Yuqing Du
Chapter 6
	The Digital Darśana: Celebrating Durgā Pūjā 2020 During the Pandemic	Valeria Giampietri, Randa Khalil, Ludovica Tozzi
Chapter 7
	Post-War Religious Dynamics: A Case-study from Nepal	Davide Torri
Chapter 8
	Migration, Religious Super-diversity, and Cohabitation: Notes from an Ethnographic Research on Sri Lankan Communities in Sicily	Giovanni Cordova