Interreligious Encounters in Europe: Sites, Materialities and Practices

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
	Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Sites, Materialities and Practices of Interreligious Encounters in Europe
	Introduction
	The Diversification and Complexification of Interreligious Encounters
	Scholarly Perspectives on Interreligious Dialogue
	A Three-fold Approach to Studying Interreligious Encounters
	Concluding Remarks
Part I: The Sites of Interreligious Encounters
	1 Spatializing Interreligious Practice: Interreligious Place-making in a German Metropolitan Area
		1.1 Introduction: Towards a Spatial Approach to Interreligious Dialogue
		1.2 Methods and Research Design
		1.3 Case Study 1: The Gates of World Religions
		1.4 Case Study 2: The Angel of Culture
		1.5 Patterns of Interreligious Place-making: Comparative Conclusions
	2 Community and Interfaith Dialogue in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Searching for ‘Mjesto Susreta’
		2.1 Introduction
		2.2 Research Process
		2.3 What Constitutes a Community in the BiH Context?
		2.4 Interfaith Dialogue in BiH
		2.5 Interreligious Dialogue and Suživot
		2.6 Spatial Segregation and Interactions
		2.7 Stolac – Known and Unknown Places
		2.8 Kotor Varoš – Identities and Localities
		2.9 Conclusion
	3 Provincializing Dialogue: Post-secular Governance Networks and the Brokerage of Religious Diversity in a North German Town
		3.1 Introduction
		3.2 Post-secular Governance Networks
		3.3 Research on Small Towns in Germany: Rural Networks and Brokers
		3.4 Case Study and Methods
		3.5 Fromberg’s Changing Dynamics: A Brief Timeline
		3.6 Network Protagonists in Fromberg
		3.7 The Benefits, Obligations and Internal Tensions of Network Governance
		3.8 Secular–religious Competition
		3.9 Conclusion
Part II: The Materialities of Interreligious Encounters
	4 Architectures of Tolerance: Muslims, Alevis and the Impossible Promise of Berlin’s House of One
		4.1 Introduction
		4.2 The House of One
		4.3 Interreligious Dialogues
		4.4 Methodological Approach
		4.5 Empirical Findings: Blind Spots
		4.6 Conclusion: The Ambivalence of the Symbolic
	5 The Materiality and Aesthetics of the City in Dialogue: The Case of the Day of Islam in the Catholic Church in Poland
		5.1 Introduction
		5.2 The Theoretical and Methodological Frame
		5.3 Data and Analysis
		5.4 The Poster Controversy and the Emergent Dialogue
		5.5 Analysis of Textual Elements
		5.6 Analysis of Visual Elements
		5.7 Viewing the Poster in its Broader Context
		5.8 Kraków as a Space of Dialogue
		5.9 The Poster’s Reception
		5.10 T he Materiality of the Poster and Negotiations of Visibility
		5.11 Conclusions
	6 The Affective Machines of Dialogue: Materializations of Identities/Differences in the Assemblages of an Exhibition About Everyday Muslim Life
		6.1 Introduction
		6.2 The Production of Identities and Differences Within Material and Dynamic Assemblages
		6.3 A Diversity-political Exhibition on Local Muslim Life: Contexts, Rationalities and Conflicts
		6.4 Exhibiting ‘Muslimness’: The Politics of Multicultural Intimacies and the Material Entanglements of Differentiating and Binding Forces
		6.5 Relations of Difference/Identity in an Interreligious Groups’ Guided Tour through the Exhibition on Muslim Life: Analysing Shifting Affective Assemblages
		6.6 Situated Becomings: Between Religious Community and the ‘Friendly Smiling Non-believer’
		6.7 Synthesis and Concluding Remarks
Part III: The Practices of Interreligious Encounters
	7 Dialogic Art: The Photographer Peter Sanders on Promoting Understanding
		7.1 Introduction
		7.2 The Journeys of a Veteran Photographer
		7.3 Capturing the Spiritual
		7.4 The Sufi Anthropology of Peter Sanders
		7.5 (Mis)interpretations and Conversations: A Methodological Intermezzo
		7.6 Light and Light
		7.7 Promoting a Message of Peace and Understanding
		7.8 Reaching Out
		7.9 Art as Dialogue
	8 Local Connections in an Increasingly Polarized Nation? Examining the British Context for Multifaith Social Action and Interfaith Dialogue from 1997 to the Present
		8.1 Introduction
		8.2 The Relationship Between Interfaith Dialogue and Multifaith Social Action
		8.3 Interfaith, Multifaith and Government Policy
		8.4 Evidence from the Case Studies
		8.5 Conclusion
	9 Atmospheric Encounters: Interfaith Dialogue in a Multifaith Neighbourhood of Copenhagen
		9.1 Introduction
		9.2 Atmosphere
		9.3 The Study, Context and Methodology
		9.4 The Spirit and the Body
		9.5 Expectations of Transcendence
		9.6 Moving Together
		9.7 Conclusion
Afterword
	An Afterword
	The Productivity of Interreligious Encounters
	Power and Inequalities in Interreligious Encounters
	Looking Ahead
Index