Religious Diversity through a Super-Diversity Lens: National, Sub-regional and Socio-economic Religious Diversities in Melbourne

Religious diversity is becoming more diverse – as new waves of immigrants and residential relocators compound and complicate existing patterns of religious difference in different parts of major cities. This new ‘super-diversification’ explodes previous ideas of the components of a multicultural society and thus has implications for how we conceptualise, theorise and analyse the demography of cities. Moreover, measuring and mapping religious diversity is important for social policy and planning purposes, not least because religious organisations and people play persistent, albeit changing, roles in public life (Casanova 1994; Gryzmala-Busse 2015). We address the challenge of deciding what to measure and at what spatial and denominational levels of detail. Our analyses reveal how patterns of religious diversity in Melbourne vary by urban location and have been the product of both immigration and intra-urban mobility over time....