ABSTRACT
This book examines interreligious dialogue in Europe and how interreligious encounters are framed, expressed and practised. Throughout Europe religious identities have increasingly become significant categories within debates on migration, cohesion, diversity and belonging. By focusing on the spatialities, materialities and practices of interreligious dialogues and encounters, the volume sheds light on the heterogeneous domains where the visibility and inclusion of religious and cultural differences are currently negotiated and contested. The chapters draw on social science perspectives and include a range of empirical case studies from a variety of European settings. The contributions (a) shed light on the subjectivities, relations and modes of behaviour produced, negotiated and contested in and through locally embedded interreligious encounters and dialogue-oriented practices, (b) observe the power dynamics that shape those practices and encounters and (c) discuss their implications for the place(s) of religion in the public sphere. Overall the book contributes to a better understanding of how cultural, religious and political identities are reconfigured across Europe.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |20 pages
Introduction
part I|73 pages
The Sites of Interreligious Encounters
chapter 1|20 pages
Spatializing Interreligious Practice
chapter 2|28 pages
Community and Interfaith Dialogue in Bosnia and Herzegovina
chapter 3|23 pages
Provincializing Dialogue
part II|80 pages
The Materialities of Interreligious Encounters
chapter 4|22 pages
Architectures of Tolerance
chapter 5|27 pages
The Materiality and Aesthetics of the City in Dialogue
chapter 6|29 pages
The Affective Machines of Dialogue
part III|60 pages
The Practices of Interreligious Encounters