Description: Migration is stirring up controversy across Europe. Politicians and pundits point to clashes that flare up--or so the story goes--when people of different religious and nonreligious ways of life come together. This book challenges that story. Setting an experimental and explorative agenda, it brings together activist and academic voices affiliated with A World of Neighbours, a multi-faith network that has been engaging with people on the move across Europe. These voices, from a wide variety of contexts and countries, tell a different story. We are already living in a world of neighbours, whether we like it or not. Through practices of living together that cut across religious and nonreligious boundaries, we can change the world we live in.
Brief description: Ryszard Bobrowicz is a Visiting Professor of Comparative Law and Religion at Bonn University in Germany and a Researcher in Systematic Theology at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. His recent books include The Politics of Multifaith (2024) and Dissenting Church (2024), coedited with Judith Gruber and Michael Schuessler. Anna Hjalm is Director of the Swedish Theological Institute in Jerusalem, a center for theological, interreligious, and contextual research as well as education and dialogue. She has also served as Ecumenical Officer for the World Council of Churches' Jerusalem office. Ulrich Schmiedel is Professor of Global Christianities at Lund University in Sweden, where he runs a research project on faith-based refugee relief in Europe, funded by the European Research Council. His books include The Claim to Christianity (2020), coauthored with Hannah Strommen, and Religion in the European Refugee Crisis (2018), coedited with Graeme Smith.