Spaces of Tolerance: Changing Geographies and Philosophies of Religion in Today's Europe

ISBN-13: 9781032087658 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 248 str.

Luiza Bialasiewicz; Valentina Gentile

Opis

This book offers interdisciplinary and cross-national perspectives on the challenges of negotiating the contours of religious tolerance in Europe.

Spis treści

Introduction: Spaces of tolerance: Theories, Contested Practices and the Question of Context; PART I: Negotiating Freedom and Religion: Tolerance, Neutrality, Conviviality 1. The Scope of Religious Freedom in Europe: Tolerance, Democratic Equality and Political Autonomy; 2. Neutrality, Toleration, and Religious Diversity; 3. Toleration and Tolerance: Between Belief and Identity; 4. Infrastructures for Living with Difference; PART II: Securing and Securitizing Religious Tolerance 5. Religious Toleration and the Securitization of Religion; 6. Militant secularism versus Tolerant Pluralism. A critical assessment of the European Court of Human Rights; 7. The Limits of Toleration towards Syrian Refugees in Turkey: From Guesthood to Ansar Spirit; PART III: Everyday Spaces of Tolerance 8. Paradoxical Visibilities: Purpose Built Mosques in Copenhagen; 9. Mediating (in)visibility and publicity in an African church in Ghent: religious place-making and solidarity in the European city; 10. Charity, hospitality, tolerance? Religious organizations and the changing vocabularies of migrant assistance in Rome; Index

O autorze

Luiza Bialasiewicz is a political geographer and Professor of European Governance at the University of Amsterdam, where she also co-directs the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES). Her research focuses on European migration policy, within European cities and at the borders of Europe.

Valentina Gentile is Assistant Professor in Political Philosophy at LUISS University of Rome and Guest Professor at Antwerp University. She specialises in normative political philosophy, liberal theory, and the work of John Rawls. Her research focuses on stability, pluralism and reciprocity, tolerance, and equality.