Grounds for Difference Frontmatter Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Difference and Inequality 2. The Return of Biology 3. Language Religion and the Politics of Difference 4. Religion and Nationalism 5. The “Diaspora” Diaspora 6. Migration Membership and the Nation State 7. Nationalism Ethnicity and Modernity Notes References Index Offering fresh perspectives on perennial questions of ethnicity race nationalism and religion Rogers Brubaker analyzes three forces that shape the politics of diversity and multiculturalism today: inequality as a public concern biology as an asserted basis of racial and ethnic difference and religion as a key terrain of public contestation