Contemporary Christian-Cultural Values: Migration Encounters in the Nordic Region

ISBN-13: 9780367495664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 206 str.

Cecilia Nahnfeldt

Opis

Examining the motives for hospitality as lived in Christian contexts in the Nordic region and addressing the content of talk about ‘religion’ in public discourse, 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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Pursuit of Common Grounds – Conceptualizing Values and Encounters  2. A Nonmodernist Humanizing: Reconstructing Theological Resistance Beyond Secular–Religious Binaries  3. Religion, Race, and the Fantasies of Benevolence  4. Migration and Christian Vocation in a Global World  5. "Tu Veux un Chewing-gum?": Encounters in Hospitality and Willfulness  6. Europe Between Globalism and Localism  7. We Who Flee and We Who Are in the Business of Producing Refugees  8. State Lockdown: The Concept of "Risky Immigrants" in Danish Policy Discourse  9. The Gift of Being Needed: Protestantism and the Double-Edged Sword of Hospitality  10. Bordering, Othering, and Empathy: Enhancing Social Proximity in a World in Motion  11. The Cracks in the Category of Christianism: A Call for Ambiguity in the Conceptualization of Christianity  12. Challenged by Ecumenism: The Blessing of the Religious Other for Ecclesial Hospitality Practices  13. Conceptions of Dialogical Hospitality: The Ugly Side of Hospitality