Contested Hospitalities in a Time of Migration (eBook, PDF)

Religious and Secular Counterspaces in the Nordic Region
Redaktion: Bendixsen, Synnøve; Wyller, Trygve

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the duality of openness and restriction in approaches to migrants in the Nordic countries, presenting case studies from across the region that demonstrate civil society and religious opposition to increasingly restricted border regimes and examining the values that underlie efforts to offer hospitality to migrants.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000710014
• Artikelnr.: 57974129

Autorenporträt

Synnøve K. N. Bendixsen is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is the author of The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin and the co-editor of Egalitarianism in Scandinavia, Critical Anthropological Engagements in Human Alterity, and Difference, and Engaged Anthropology. Trygve Wyller is Professor of Christian Social Practice at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the co-editor of Borderland Religion and The Spaces of Others - Heterotopic Spaces, and the co-author of Reformation Theology for a Post-Secular Age.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Acknowlegements; 1. Introduction: Contextualized
Hospitalities: Migrants and the Nordic Beyond the Religious/Secular Binary
Part 1: Exploring the Nordic Context 2. Religious Civil Society and the
National Welfare State: Secular Reciprocity versus Christian Charity Part
2: Religious Traditions, Values and New Restrictions 3. Defending the
Endangered Nation: Nordic Identitarian Christianism in the Age of Migration
4. Beacons of Tolerance Dimmed? Migration, Criminalization and
Inhospitality in Welfare States 5. Emergency Care Between State and Civil
Society: The Open Clinic for Irregular Migrants Part 3: Reconfiguring
Migrantscapes in Religious and "Secular" Nordic Civil Society 6. "We Can
Teach Swedes a Lot!" Experiences of In/hospitality, Space Making, and the
Prospects of Altered Guest-Host Relations among Migrant and Non-migrant
Christians in the Church of Sweden 7. Hospitality, Reciprocity, and Power
Relations in the Home Accommodation of Asylum Seekers in Finland 8. What
about No-bodies? Embodied Belonging, Unspecific Strangers, and Religious
Hospitality in Norway 9. Intertwined Hospitalities in a Danish Church 10.
Between Belonging and Exclusion: Migrants' Resilience in a Norwegian
Welfare Prison 11. The Significance of the Individual Vocation:
Encountering Living Civil Society Agents in Northern Norway and Southern
Sweden Conclusion Index