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The current refugee crisis sweeping Europe, and much of the world,
closely intersects with largely neglected questions of religion.
Moving beyond discussions of religious differences, what can we
learn about the interaction between religion and migration? Do
faith-based organisations play a role within the refugee regime?
How do religious traditions and perspectives challenge and inform
current practices and policies towards refugees? This volume
gathers together expertise from academics and practitioners, as
well as migrant voices, in order to investigate these
interconnections. It shows that reconsidering our understanding and
approaches to both could generate creative alternative responses to
the growing global migration crisis. Beginning with a discussion of
the secular/religious divide - and how it shapes dominant policy
practices and counter approaches to displacement and migration -
the book then goes on to explore and deconstruct the dominant
discourse of the Muslim refugee as a threat to the
secular/Christian West. The discussion continues with an
exploration of Christian and Islamic traditions of hospitality,
showing how they challenge current practices of securitization of
migration, and concludes with an investigation of the largely
unexplored relation between gender, religion and migration.
Bringing together leading and emerging voices from across academia
and practice, in the fields of International Relations, migration
studies, philosophy, religious studies and gender studies, this
volume offers a unique take on one of the most pressing global
problems of our time.
The current refugee crisis sweeping Europe, and much of the world,
closely intersects with largely neglected questions of religion.
Moving beyond discussions of religious differences, what can we
learn about the interaction between religion and migration? Do
faith-based organisations play a role within the refugee regime?
How do religious traditions and perspectives challenge and inform
current practices and policies towards refugees? This volume
gathers together expertise from academics and practitioners, as
well as migrant voices, in order to investigate these
interconnections. It shows that reconsidering our understanding and
approaches to both could generate creative alternative responses to
the growing global migration crisis. Beginning with a discussion of
the secular/religious divide - and how it shapes dominant policy
practices and counter approaches to displacement and migration -
the book then goes on to explore and deconstruct the dominant
discourse of the Muslim refugee as a threat to the
secular/Christian West. The discussion continues with an
exploration of Christian and Islamic traditions of hospitality,
showing how they challenge current practices of securitization of
migration, and concludes with an investigation of the largely
unexplored relation between gender, religion and migration.
Bringing together leading and emerging voices from across academia
and practice, in the fields of International Relations, migration
studies, philosophy, religious studies and gender studies, this
volume offers a unique take on one of the most pressing global
problems of our time.
In the last few years, the Muslim presence in Europe has been
increasingly perceived as 'problematic'. Events such as the French
ban on headscarves in public schools, the publication of the
so-called 'Danish cartoons', and the speech of Pope Benedict XVI at
the University of Regensburg have hit the front pages of newspapers
the world over, and prompted a number of scholarly debates on
Muslims' capacity to comply with the seemingly neutral and
pluralistic rules of European secularity. Luca Mavelli argues that
this perspective has prevented an in-depth reflection on the limits
of Europe's secular tradition and its role in Europe's conflictual
encounter with Islam. Through an original reading of Michel
Foucault's spiritual notion of knowledge and an engagement with key
thinkers, from Thomas Aquinas to Jurgen Habermas, Mavelli
articulates a contending genealogy of European secularity. While
not denying the latter's achievements in terms of pluralism and
autonomy, he suggests that Europe's secular tradition has also
contributed to forms of isolation, which translate into Europe's
incapacity to perceive its encounter with Islam as an opportunity
rather than a threat. Drawing on this theoretical perspective,
Mavelli offers a contending account of some of the most important
recent controversies surrounding Islam in Europe and investigates
the 'postsecular' as a normative model to engage with the tensions
at the heart of European secularity. Finally, he advances the
possibility of a Europe willing to reconsider its established
secular narratives which may identify in the encounter with Islam
an opportunity to flourish and cultivate its democratic qualities
and postnational commitments. This work will be of great interest
to students and scholars of religion and international relations,
social and political theory, and Islam in Europe.
In the last few years, the Muslim presence in Europe has been
increasingly perceived as 'problematic'. Events such as the French
ban on headscarves in public schools, the publication of the
so-called 'Danish cartoons', and the speech of Pope Benedict XVI at
the University of Regensburg have hit the front pages of newspapers
the world over, and prompted a number of scholarly debates on
Muslims' capacity to comply with the seemingly neutral and
pluralistic rules of European secularity. Luca Mavelli argues that
this perspective has prevented an in-depth reflection on the limits
of Europe's secular tradition and its role in Europe's conflictual
encounter with Islam. Through an original reading of Michel
Foucault's spiritual notion of knowledge and an engagement with key
thinkers, from Thomas Aquinas to Jurgen Habermas, Mavelli
articulates a contending genealogy of European secularity. While
not denying the latter's achievements in terms of pluralism and
autonomy, he suggests that Europe's secular tradition has also
contributed to forms of isolation, which translate into Europe's
incapacity to perceive its encounter with Islam as an opportunity
rather than a threat. Drawing on this theoretical perspective,
Mavelli offers a contending account of some of the most important
recent controversies surrounding Islam in Europe and investigates
the 'postsecular' as a normative model to engage with the tensions
at the heart of European secularity. Finally, he advances the
possibility of a Europe willing to reconsider its established
secular narratives which may identify in the encounter with Islam
an opportunity to flourish and cultivate its democratic qualities
and postnational commitments. This work will be of great interest
to students and scholars of religion and international relations,
social and political theory, and Islam in Europe.
With cosmopolitan illusions put to rest, Europe is now haunted by a
pervasive neoliberal transformation of citizenship that
subordinates inclusion, protection, and belonging to rationalities
of value. Against the backdrop of four major crises - Eurozone,
refugee, Brexit, and the COVID-19 pandemic - this book explores how
neoliberal citizenship rewrites identities and solidarities in
economic terms. The result is a sacralized market order in which
those superfluous to economic needs and regarded as unproductive
consumers of resources - be they undocumented migrants, debased
citizens of austerity, or the elderly in care homes - are excluded
and sacrificed for the well-being of the economy. Pushing
biopolitical theorizing in novel directions through an
investigation of the political economy of scarcity and the theology
of the market, Neoliberal Citizenship reveals how a common thread
connects the suspension of search-and-rescue missions in the
Mediterranean, the punitive bailout of Greece, the widespread
adoption of austerity measures, the normalization of racism, the
celebration of resilience, and the fact that in Europe and North
America, during the first wave of the pandemic, almost half of all
COVID-19 deaths were care home residents. This thread is the
sacralization of the market that, by making life conditional upon
its economic and emotional value, turns 'less valuable' individuals
into sacrificial subjects. Neoliberal Citizenship challenges
established understandings of citizenship, brings to light new
regimes of inclusion and exclusion, and advances critical insights
on the future of neoliberalism in a post-COVID-19 world.
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