Spaces of Tolerance

Changing Geographies and Philosophies of Religion in Today's Europe
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-22407-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics

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

In today’s Europe, religions and religious individuals are increasingly framed as both an internal and external security threat. This is evident in controls over the activities of foreign preachers but also, more broadly, in EU states’ management of migration flows, marked by questions regarding the religious background of migrating non-European Others. This book addresses such shifts directly by examining how understandings of religious freedom touch down in actual contexts, places, and practices across Europe, offering multidisciplinary insights from leading thinkers from political theory, political philosophy, anthropology, and geography. The volume thus aims to ground ideal liberal democratic theory and, at the same time, to bring normative reflection to grounded, ethnographic analyses of religious practices. Such ‘grounded’ understandings matter, for they speak to how religions and religious difference are encountered in specific places. They especially matter in a European context where religion and religious difference are increasingly not just securitised but made the object of violent attacks.

The book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, philosophy, geography, religious studies, and the sociology and anthropology of religion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bialasiewicz, Luiza

Gentile, Valentina

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.