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Edited by ULRICH SCHMIEDEL and GRAEME SMITH RELIGION IN THE EUROPEAN REFUGEE CRISIS Religion and Global Migrations Series editors Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh Oxford Dept of International Development Oxford, United Kingdom Jennifer B Saunders Stamford, Connecticut, USA Susanna Snyder Ripon College Oxford, United Kingdom As the first series of its kind, Religion and Global Migrations will examine the phenomenon of religion and migration from multiple disciplinary per- spectives (e.g., historical, anthropological, sociological, ethical, and theo- logical), in various global locations (including the Americas, Europe, and Asia), and from a range of religious traditions. Monographs and edited volumes in the series explore the intersections of religion and migration from a variety of approaches, including studies of shifting religious prac- tices and ideas in sending and receiving communities, among migrants and also among those who interact with migrants in places of origin and destination; public responses to migration such as religiously informed debates, policies, and activism among migrants and nonmigrants alike; gender dynamics including shifts in gender roles and access to power in sending and receiving sites; identity in relation to religion and migration that include constructive, as well as descriptive, scholarship; empire, from the ancient Mediterranean through the height of European colonization to contemporary relationships between the developing and developed world, and the way it has profoundly affected the movement of people and development of religions; and other topics connecting to the theme of religion and global migrations. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14511 Ulrich Schmiedel • Graeme Smith Editors Religion in the European Refugee Crisis Editors Ulrich Schmiedel Graeme Smith Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München University of Chichester Munich, Germany Chichester, United Kingdom Religion and Global Migrations ISBN 978-3-319-67960-0 ISBN 978-3-319-67961-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67961-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017961848 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the pub- lisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institu- tional affiliations. Cover illustration: © Oliver Lynton / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland A cknowledgments What came to be called the current refugee crisis has stirred up contro- versy across the public squares and the political spheres of Europe. Since any scholar who analyzes and assesses this so-called crisis runs the risk of getting her or his hands dirty, we thank, first and foremost, all the con- tributors who confronted this risk. We are grateful for their careful and compelling studies, for their cooperative spirit, and for the support with which they met the tight deadlines driven by the contemporary nature of our subject. Thanks are also due to Tommy Lynch and Hannah M. Strømmen who organized the international and interdisciplinary con- ference, “Radical/ized Religion: Religion as a Resource for Political Theory and Practice,” at the University of Chichester in the summer of 2017, when we were about to finish and finalize editing this compilation. Their conference allowed us both to tease out and to try out what we had learned from our contributors. We are also grateful to the anonymous peer reviewer who helped us to sharpen the concerns and the concepts of our compilation. Despite her or his efforts, mistakes might have crept into our compilation. These are, of course, our own. We thank the editors of “Religion and Global Migrations,” Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Jennifer B. Saunders, and Susanna Snyder, for including our compilation in their striking new series. Last but not least, we thank Amy Invernizzi and Philip Getz at Palgrave Macmillan in New York for the expertise and the enthu- siasm with which they have seen through the production of this compila- tion from the start. August 2017 Ulrich Schmiedel and Graeme Smith v c ontents 1 I ntroduction: Charting a Crisis 1 Ulrich Schmiedel and Graeme Smith Part I Constellations 13 2 Perceptions of Plurality: The Impact of the Refugee Crisis on the Interpretation of Religious Pluralization in Europe 15 Gert Pickel 3 Infiltrators, Imposters, or Human Beings? The Slovenian Socio-Political Imaginary, Christianity, and the Responses to the 2015–2016 Migrant Crisis 39 Gorazd Andrejč 4 Between Traditionalism, Fundamentalism, and Populism: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Media Coverage of the Migration Crisis in Poland 61 Joanna Krotofil and Dominika Motak vii viii CONTENTS 5 Confronting the Current Refugee Crisis: The Importance of Islamic Citizens’ Initiatives in Germany 87 Mohammed Khallouk 6 Fearing the Faith of Others? Government, Religion, and Integration in Norway 105 Sturla J. Stålsett Part II Conflicts 121 7 Christianity in a Post-Christian Context: Immigration, Church Identity, and the Role of Religion in Public Debates 123 Johanna Gustafsson Lundberg 8 “Refugees” and the Problem of Identity in the UK 145 Martin Kettle 9 Against the Manichees: Immigration Detention and the Shaping of the Theo- political Imagination 163 Anna Rowlands 10 None Is Still Too Many: Holocaust Commemoration and Historical Anesthetization 187 Alana M. Vincent 11 “We Can Do This!” Tackling the Political Theology of Populism 205 Ulrich Schmiedel CONTENT S ix Part III Consequences 225 12 Who are the People? Toward a Theological Ethics of Citizenship and Community 227 Reiner Anselm 13 Turning a Curse into a Blessing? Theological Contributions to a Resource-Orientated Narrative on Migration in Europe 243 Regina Polak 14 Christ, the Stranger: The Theological Relevance of Migration 265 Stephan van Erp 15 What Does It Mean To Be a Progressive Intellectual after the Refugee Crisis in Europe? A Dialogue with Tariq Ramadan 281 Morteza Hashemi 16 Conclusion: The Theological Takeover 297 Ulrich Schmiedel and Graeme Smith Index 309 n c otes on ontributors Gorazd Andrejc ̌ is a senior researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maribor, Slovenia, an affiliated lecturer at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK, and a research associate at the Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is a philosopher of religion, with a significant part of his research involving multi- and interdisciplinary work. His recent study, Wittgenstein and Interreligious Disagreement, analyzes new ways of interpreting Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy in order to shed light on interreligious communication. Reiner  Anselm is Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. He has written widely on theological ethics, particularly political and medical ethics. He is one of the founders of the research unit focusing on the significance of Protestantism for public and political debates in postwar Germany, funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In 2016, he was appointed President of the Chamber for Public Responsibility of the Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland. Stephan van Erp is Professor of Fundamental Theology at KU Leuven, Belgium. An expert in the theology of Edward Schillebeeckx, his research interests range from aesthetics to dogmatics to political theology. He has held fellowships at the University of Oxford and King’s College London. Currently, he is writing a biography of Edward Schillebeeckx. xi

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