Conclusion

As religion and migration intersect: Toward A World of Neighbours

“…Borderland religion focuses on "how emergent religious practices arise around border crossings." 23 It uses the interdisciplinary cluster of theories of the intertwinement of religion and migration, often in precarious spaces and situations. It highlights those religious practices that differ from religion as it is traditionally interpreted.…”

“…24 To develop the optics and/or theories of borderland religion is, in the context of this article, to explore how "new forms of religious belief and practice emerge in the ambiguous places along borders." 25 The borderlands are areas where traditional contradictions between the secular and the sacred, religion and politics, and ethical and emic are contested and reformatted. In the practical empirical world there are seldom binaries.…”

“…What exists are practices that embody both the Pauline Universal and the border at one and the same time, which is why we think one needs to research the borderland because there might be new and important traces and trajectories to be discovered." 26 Another central dimension of the borderland religion optic is the emphasis on the seemingly non-significant. 27 This is again related to the practices.…”

“…26 Another central dimension of the borderland religion optic is the emphasis on the seemingly non-significant. 27 This is again related to the practices. Wyller also connects to Lefebvre's focus on "the phenomena, the life worlds where connections happen among people, between people and the social, and between people and nature."…”

“…28 In seemingly insignificant events, such as a meal, prayer, or touch, an encounter between human such "new and important traces and trajectories [may] be discovered." 29 Based on spatial perspectives outlined above, my main focus is the everyday life, lived civil society practices as seen in AWoN, that may challenge, oppose, and resist public discourse. I propose the borderlands as a where.…”