Contemporary Christian-cultural values migration encounters in the Nordic region / edited by Cecilia Nahnfeldt and Kaia S. R©ınsdal.

Other author Nahnfeldt, Cecilia, 1964-
Other author R©ınsdal, Kaia S.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Descriptionpages cm
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Subjects
Hospitality--Religious aspects. --Christianity.
Hospitality--Scandinavia.
Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects. --Christianity.
Values--Religious aspects. --Christianity.
Christianity--Scandinavia.
Immigrants--Scandinavia. --Social conditions.
Scandinavia--Emigration and immigration. --Social aspects.
Scandinavia--Ethnic relations.
Scandinavia--Religion.

Contents Introduction. The pursuit of common grounds : conceptualizing values and encounters / Cecilia Nahnfeldt and Kaia R©ınsdal -- A non-modernist humanizing : reconstructing theological resistance beyond secular-religious binaries / Trygve Wyller -- Religion, race and the fantasies of benevolence / Federico Settler -- Migration and Christian vocation in a global world / Werner Jeanrond -- "Tu veux un chewing-gum?" encountering hospitality and willfulness / Cecilia Nahnfeldt -- Europe between globalism and localism / Bernhard Waldenfels -- We who flee and we who are in the business of producing refugees / Arne Johan Vetlesen and Rasmus Willig -- State lockdown : the concept of "risky immigrants" in Danish policy discourse / Kaspar Villadsen -- The gift of being needed : Protestantism and the double-edged sword of hospitality / Thomas Hylland-Eriksen -- Bordering, othering and empathy : enhancing social proximity in a world in motion / Maartje van der Woude -- The cracks in the category of Christianism : a call for ambiguity in the conceptualization of Christianity / Ulrich Schmiedel -- Challenged by ecumenism : the blessing of the religious other for ecclesial hospitality practices / Hans-Joachim Sander -- Conceptions of dialogical hospitality : the ugly side of hospitality / Cecilia Nahnfeldt and Kaia R©ınsdal.
Abstract "This book reconstructs the connection between religion and migration, drawing on post-colonial perspectives to shed light on what religion can contribute to migrant encounters. Examining the resources and motives for hospitality as lived in Christian contexts in the Nordic region, it addresses the content of talk about 'religion' in public discourse, the concept having become something of an empty signifier in debates surrounding migration. Multidisciplinary in approach, this volume demonstrates that 'religion' is not in fact an empty signifier, but gains substance through practice and interpretation. Considering the undeveloped potentiality of religion and the manner in which the unseen religious perspective in secularity becomes manifest in practice, this volume will appeal to social scientists and scholars of religion with interests in migration, refugee studies, theology and Christian practice"-- Provided by publisher.
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LCCN 2020054834
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