Contested Hospitalities in a Time of Migration

Synnve K. N. Bendixsen is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is the author of The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin and the co-editor of Egalitarianism in Scandinavia, Critical Anthropological Engagements in Human Alterity, and Difference, and Engaged Anthropology. Trygve Wyller is Professor of Christian Social Practice at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the co-editor of Borderland Religion and The Spaces of Others - Heterotopic Spaces, and the co-author of Reformation Theology for a Post-Secular Age.

List of contributors; Acknowlegements; 1. Introduction: Contextualized Hospitalities: Migrants and the Nordic Beyond the Religious/Secular Binary Part 1: Exploring the Nordic Context 2. Religious Civil Society and the National Welfare State: Secular Reciprocity versus Christian Charity Part 2: Religious Traditions, Values and New Restrictions 3. Defending the Endangered Nation: Nordic Identitarian Christianism in the Age of Migration 4. Beacons of Tolerance Dimmed? Migration, Criminalization and Inhospitality in Welfare States 5. Emergency Care Between State and Civil Society: The Open Clinic for Irregular Migrants Part 3: Reconfiguring Migrantscapes in Religious and "Secular" Nordic Civil Society 6. "We Can Teach Swedes a Lot!" Experiences of In/hospitality, Space Making, and the Prospects of Altered Guest-Host Relations among Migrant and Non-migrant Christians in the Church of Sweden 7. Hospitality, Reciprocity, and Power Relations in the Home Accommodation of Asylum Seekers in Finland 8. What about No-bodies? Embodied Belonging, Unspecific Strangers, and Religious Hospitality in Norway 9. Intertwined Hospitalities in a Danish Church 10. Between Belonging and Exclusion: Migrants Resilience in a Norwegian Welfare Prison 11. The Significance of the Individual Vocation: Encountering Living Civil Society Agents in Northern Norway and Southern Sweden Conclusion Index