Migration and Religion: IMISCOE Short Reader (IMISCOE Research Series)

✍ Scribed by Magdalena Nordin, Jonas Otterbeck

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 130
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This open access book introduces research on migration and religion with the focus on migration to western European countries from the 1950s and onwards. The book is an in-depth presentation of the main research trends as to methods, theories and empirical zones on migration and religion. In a unique way, the book brings together research about the topic aligning it with the experiences and urgencies of migrants.

The first part of three introduces key concepts and presents main research trends over time. The second part deals with the processes of establishment – on an individual level as well as on a group and society level. The third and final part focuses on religious change in relation to religious ideas and habits. It further highlights religious creativity. The third part finishes with a discussion about challenges to research and what we still do not know enough about.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
About the Authors
Part I: Researching Migration and Religion
Reference
Chapter 1: Introducing the Field: ‘Migration and Religion’
1.1 Constant Migrations
1.2 The Aim of This Book
1.3 Migrants and Migration
1.4 Religion
1.4.1 Religion and Secularisation in Europe
1.5 Religion and Migration
1.6 The Complicated Task of Finding Things Out
1.7 Religion, Migration and Integration
1.8 Religion and Migration from an Intersectional Perspective
References
Chapter 2: Trends in Research: A Literature Review
2.1 Early Research (1903–1970s)
2.1.1 Summary
2.2 Scholarship in the 1980s and 1990s
2.2.1 American Scholarship
2.2.2 European Scholarship
2.3 European Scholarship from 2000–2010
2.4 European and Some American Scholarship from 2010
2.5 Concluding Remarks
References
Part II: The New Home
References
Chapter 3: Finding Tactics and Making Space: The Individuals and the Communities
3.1 The Social Functions of Religion
3.1.1 Demographics
3.1.2 Religion as a Social Structure
3.1.3 Morals and the Bracketing of Them
3.1.4 Gender, Social Norms, and Integration
3.2 The Migrant’s Religious Life and Its Effects
3.2.1 Ritualisation and Quotidian Rituals
3.2.2 Ritualisation and Lifecycle Rituals
3.2.3 Religion as a Resource or Hindrance for Integration
3.2.4 Religion and Active Citizenship
3.3 The Establishment of Religious Organisations
3.3.1 The Patterns of Establishment
3.3.2 The Processes of Space Making and the Emotions Involved
3.3.3 Support and Conflict
3.4 Transnational Spaces and Global Movements
3.4.1 Transnational Spaces and Social Remittances
3.4.2 Global Religious Movements
3.5 Religious Services: A Crossroad of Individual and Community Tactics and Space Making
3.5.1 Black Christian Communities in the UK and Congregational Services
3.5.2 Language Groups Within Migrant Communities in Sweden
3.5.3 Religious Services in Tamil Hindu Temples in Switzerland
3.6 Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 4: Negotiating Space: Strategies of the European States and Politics of Religion
4.1 Politics of Religion in History and Today
4.1.1 The Westphalian Settlement
4.1.2 The Neighbourhood, the State, or the Transnational?
4.1.3 Governances of Religion(s)
4.2 Rights, Obligations and Laws
4.2.1 Acknowledging Religious Group Rights
4.2.2 Freedom of Religion
4.2.3 Blasphemy and Anti-discrimination Laws
4.3 Getting to Know Each Other and Areas of Conflicts
4.3.1 Religion in Public Institutions
4.3.1.1 Educational Systems
4.3.1.2 Health Care Systems
4.3.2 Conflict Areas and (Desired) Social Cohesion
4.3.2.1 Antisemitism and Islamophobia
4.3.2.2 Securitisation as a Response to (Perceived) Radicalisation
4.3.2.3 Interfaith Groups
4.4 Concluding Remarks
References
Part III: Religious Matters
Reference
Chapter 5: Religious Reactions
5.1 Religious Practices
5.1.1 Religious Practices, Generation, and Gender
5.1.2 Perceiving Religious Practices, but Reimagining Them
5.1.3 Abandoning Religious Practices
5.2 Missionaries
5.2.1 Spreading the Word
5.2.2 Revitalizing Faith
5.2.3 Pastoral Care
5.3 Conversions
5.3.1 What Conversion Can Tell Us About Migration
5.3.2 Conversion and Identity
5.4 New Theologies
5.4.1 Liberal Theologies
5.4.2 Revivalist Theologies
5.4.3 Conservative Theologies
5.4.4 Theologies of Migration
5.5 Charity
5.5.1 Migrants’ NGO Religious Charities
5.5.2 The Importance of Economic Remittances
5.6 Creativity in the Arts
5.6.1 Art Critical of Religious Expressions in Former Homelands
5.6.2 Art that Is Nostalgic or Celebratory in Relation to Religious Arts in Former Homelands
5.6.3 Arts that Use Popular Art Expressions in the New Homelands to Affirm Religion
5.6.4 Arts for Dialogue
References
Chapter 6: Looking Ahead
6.1 Bringing Religion into Migration Research
6.1.1 Religion in the Research Design of International Migration
6.1.2 The Function and Spaces of Religion
6.1.3 Changing Religious Norms and Actual Practices
6.2 What We Do Not Know
6.2.1 Historical Perspectives
6.2.2 Developing More Reliable Statistics
6.2.3 Comparative Perspectives
6.2.4 The Role of Social Media for Religion in Relation to Migration
6.2.5 Lingering Immigrant Identities
6.2.6 Religious Change in Society in General and Among Established Religious Communities
6.3 Final Words
References