Drawing together previously disjointed scholarship on the topic of asylum and conversion from Islam to Christianity, this book shows how boundaries of belonging are negotiated between Middle Eastern ex-Muslim asylum seekers, church representatives, lawyers, legal decision-makers and policymakers.
With case studies from European countries such as Germany, Austria, Finland and Sweden, the book takes an interdisciplinary approach including ethnographic and other qualitative research, discourse analysis and case law analysis, to explore the complexities of the phenomenon of asylum and conversion from Islam to Christianity.
This book is an authoritative resource for academic scholars in fields as diverse as migration and refugee studies, anthropology, sociology, religious studies, law and socio-legal studies, as well as legal and religious practitioners.
Recenzijas
A book most needed, for students, researchers, and practitioners alike. The book highlights the difficult question of the credibility and authenticity of asylum seeker conversion and several chapters show how 'true conversion' and 'religion' are often (un)consciously associated too tightly with a (Lutheran) Protestant view. The cross-disciplinary, comparative approach includes data from the processes of legal decisions, court ethnography, as well as voices of asylum seekers themselves. * Nora Stene, Assistant Professor of Comparative Religious Studies, University of Oslo, Norway * The editors and contributors should be congratulated on the production of a well-constructed and informative volume about a crucial, and hitherto poorly understood, topic. * Nick Gill, Professor of Human Geography, University of Exeter, UK *
Papildus informācija
An interdisciplinary exploration of asylum processes in Europe, which are based on conversion to Christianity and the associated fear of religious persecution.
Notes on the Contributors
1. Asylum and Conversion to Christianity: An Introduction, Lena Rose
(University of Konstanz, Germany)
2. Definitions of Religion as Gatekeeping: A Discursive Approach to the
Assessment of Christian Conversion in Finland: A Qualitative Sociological
Analysis, Helmi Halonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
3. Credibility Assessment in Asylum Claims Based on Religious Conversion in
Germany: A Qualitative Sociological Analysis, Anne K. Schlüter (University of
Münster, Germany)
4. Making the Convert Speak: The Production of Truth and the Apparatus of
Conversion in Austria, Markus Elias Ramsauer (University of Vienna, Austria)
and Ayse Ēaglar (University of Vienna/IWM, Austria)
5. Material Conversions: Exploring the Materiality of Asylum Seekers'
Conversion Narratives and Processes in Norway, Olav Bųrreson Fossdal
(University of Oslo, Norway)
6. Building Belief: Navigating Moral Tensions Through Category Work While
Assisting Converted Asylum Seekers in Finland, Valtteri Vähä-Savo (Tampere
University, Finland) and Venla Koivuluhta, (Tampere University, Finland)
7. Tales of Transformation: Conversion Narratives of Unaccompanied Refugee
Minors in the Church of Sweden, Jonathan Morgan (Lund University, Sweden)
8. Becoming Christian, Remaining Iranian: The Salience of National Identity
in Iranian Evangelical Exile Churches, Benedikt Römer (University of
Bayreuth, Germany)
9. She Lacks a 'Male Network' in Her Home Country: Gendering the
Credibility Assessment and the Discursive Space of Intersectionality in
Migration Courts in Sweden, Ebru Öztürk (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
Afterword: In the Eye of the Inquisitor: the Politics of Religious Asylum,
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Northwestern University, USA)
Bibliography
Index
Lena Rose is Lecturer of Anthropology at the University of Konstanz, Germany.
Ebru Öztürk is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Mid Sweden University, Sweden.
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