Contemporary Christian-Cultural Values: Migration Encounters in the Nordic Region Nahnfeldt Cecilia
Contemporary Christian-Cultural Values: Migration Encounters in the Nordic Region Nahnfeldt Cecilia This book reconstructs the connection between religion and migration, drawing on post-colonial…
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Contemporary Christian-Cultural Values: Migration Encounters in the Nordic Region Nahnfeldt Cecilia
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. Multidisciplinary in approach, this volume demonstrates that "religion" is not, in fact, an empty signifier, but gains substance through practice and interpretation. 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.
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