Contemporary Christian-Cultural Values: Migration Encounters in the Nordic Region (Religion, Resistance, Hospitalities) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 036749566X ISBN 13: 9780367495664

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Cecilia Nahnfeldt is Scientific Leader, Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society, Uppsala University and Researcher at Research and Analysis Department, Church of Sweden, Uppsala.

Kaia S. Rønsdal is Associate Professor in the field of Leadership, Dialogue and Care in Plural Contexts at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 036749566X
• ISBN 13: 9780367495664
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Nahnfeldt Cecilia, Rønsdal Kaia S.