Pacifying Muslims in Germany’s ‘City of Peace’: interreligious dialogue as a tool of governance in Osnabrück

Konyali, Ali; Haddad, Laura; Pott, Andreas

doi:10.1080/09637494.2019.1678976

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“…She can show, among other things, how the production of a (positive) emotional atmosphere becomes an element in the governance of differences that relies on affective citizenship in a multicultural context. Konyali et al (2019) also use an ethnographic reconstruction of practices and interactions to shed light on processes of the (re)production as well as the transformation of dominant identity positions in locally institutionalized interreligious dialogues.…”

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Introduction

Martínez-Ariño¹,

Haddad²,

Winkler³

et al. 2023

Interreligious Encounters in Europe

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This book ties in with these studies but employs a broader notion of 'dialogue'. We understand dialogue in the Foucauldian sense of a dispositive: a 'thing to do', a desired relation that subjects are called to engage in and reflect upon in various ways. From this perspective, dialogue surfaced as a problematization of the dystopian imaginaries of potential 'clashes' of cultural and religious differences. Recalling broader discourses on recognition and tolerance (Peter 2010), interreligious dialogue manifests itself in multifarious attempts and techniques to mediate those differences.Consequently, based on this broad understanding the book does not consider only the institutionalized forms of dialogue or 'dialoguing', such as routinized meetings with institutional religious representatives or formalized interreligious bodies and discussion forums. Instead, it focuses on the multiplicity of articulations of interreligious dialogue that are linked to the multiple forms and modes of interreligious encounter. Our aim is to shed light on the variety of practices, interactions and discourses that bring together people of different religious (and sometimes non-religious) backgrounds and that produce some sort of exchange across religious lines. Such encounters may generate or reinforce existing conflicts and produce new subjectivities. More specifically, the book examines the dynamics of situated practices and encounters in different local contexts, where Interreligious encounters Sites Practices Materialities

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Section: Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%