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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.
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.
This edited volume provides an innovative contribution to the
debate on contemporary European geopolitics by tracing some of the
new political geographies and geographical imaginations emergent
within - and made possible by - the EU's actions in the
international arena. Drawing on case studies that range from the
Arctic to East Africa, the nine empirical chapters provide a
critical geopolitical reading of the ways in which particular
places, countries, and regions are brought into the EU's orbit and
the ways in which they are made to work for 'EU'rope. The analyses
look at how the spaces of 'EU'ropean power and actorness are
narrated and created, but also at how 'EU'rope's discursive (and
material) strategies of incorporation are differently appropriated
by local and regional elites, from the southern shores of the
Mediterranean to Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The question of EU
border management is a particularly important concern of several
contributions, highlighting some of the ways in which the Union's
border-work is actively (re)making the European space.
This edited volume provides an innovative contribution to the
debate on contemporary European geopolitics by tracing some of the
new political geographies and geographical imaginations emergent
within - and made possible by - the EU's actions in the
international arena. Drawing on case studies that range from the
Arctic to East Africa, the nine empirical chapters provide a
critical geopolitical reading of the ways in which particular
places, countries, and regions are brought into the EU's orbit and
the ways in which they are made to work for 'EU'rope. The analyses
look at how the spaces of 'EU'ropean power and actorness are
narrated and created, but also at how 'EU'rope's discursive (and
material) strategies of incorporation are differently appropriated
by local and regional elites, from the southern shores of the
Mediterranean to Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The question of EU
border management is a particularly important concern of several
contributions, highlighting some of the ways in which the Union's
border-work is actively (re)making the European space.
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