Lori G. Beaman is the Canada Research Chair in Religious Diversity and Social Change, Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa, and the Principal Investigator of the Religion and Diversity Project, a thirty-seven-member international research team whose focus is religion and diversity. Professor Beaman is the co-editor of Constructions of Self and Other in Yoga, Travel, and Tourism: A Journey to Elsewhere (with Sonia Sikka; Macmillan, 2016), Atheist Identities: Spaces and Social Contexts (with Steven Tomlins; Springer, 2016), and Varieties of Religious Establishment (with Winnifred Fallers Sullivan; Routledge, 2013).

"[Beaman's] approach to diversity is a refreshing one and certainly worthy of further exploration." -- Jeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College, The Journal of Religion

"[T]he book is a very useful corrective to prevailing theoretical and practical approaches vis-à-vis religious identity and diversity. The reader will find the ethnographic work particularly illuminating in grounding many of the abstract theories and concepts often employed in discussions involving religious freedom and in emphasizing that deep equality depends, by and large, on people recognizing similarities in one another. Deep Equality thus significantly broadens the frame with which we view these debates, not only in terms of methodology but also substance. There is a rich world outside law, notwithstanding law's seemingly long shadow. And it starts with the person in front of us."--Anna Su, JAAR

"This is a book that will inspire those teaching in the field of religious diversity, pointing researchers into new and fruitful directions. Highly recommended."--Nova Religio

"Deep Equality is a fresh and lively argument for a new way of thinking about how Western democracies negotiate relationships of inequality, moving us beyond ideas of tolerance and accommodation. The contributions are solidly grounded in Beaman's formidable readings in at least three different areas: the sociology of religion and related social science disciplines, philosophy, and legal studies. In this wonderfully interdisciplinary text Beaman brings theoretical tools from these disciplines to bear on important questions in innovative ways."--Mary Jo Neitz, Reading Religion

"Beaman's research leaves her optimistic that despite institutional challenges and the received view, we can move toward and experience alternative narratives of deep equality a true inclusivity of Others, who in everyday interaction become recognized and encountered as being more similar than different. This is an important recognition." -- Michele Dillon, JSSR