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The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youth's religious identity formation and their everyday life engagement with Islam. It deals with the reconstruction of selfhood and the collective content of identity formation in an urban and transnational setting

Drawing on fieldwork and interviews in Oslo and Bergen, Norway, this article discusses irregular migrants' experiences of existential displacement and the tactics they use to try to re-establish a sense of emplacement and belonging. More specifically, it argues that irregular migrants' experiences of embodied unbelonging are a consequence of a violent form of governmentality that includes specific laws, healthcare structures, and migration management rationalities. The article makes this argument by tracing how these experiences translate into embodied effects that feature prominently in migrants' narratives of suffering while living in a country that purports to provide welfare services to all. The narratives of their state of being-in-the-world are ways through which migrants both experience and express the violence and deprivation they face. I argue that these narratives are instances of structures of feeling (Williams 1973), which are shaped by modes of governmentality. The article shows that irregular migrants' coping strategies centrally involve faith, religious communities and friends. Irregular migrants draw on these relationships to get by, access healthcare, and to resist the (health) effects of social deprivation and political violence. These relationships allow irregular migrants to find meaningful ways of being-in-the-world and rebuilding, to some extent, a sense of entitlement and belonging.

The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youth's religious identity formation and their everyday life engagement with Islam. It deals with the reconstruction of selfhood and the collective content of identity formation in an urban and transnational setting

Introduction: Contextualized hospitalities : migrants and the Nordic beyond the religious/secular binary / Synnøve Bendixsen and Trygve Wyller -- Religious civil society and the national welfare state : secular reciprocity versus Christian charity / Lars Trägårdh -- Defending the endangered nation : Nordic identitarian Christianism in the age of migration / Cathrine Thorleifsson and Anders Ravik Jupskås -- Beacons of tolerance dimmed? Migration, criminalization and inhospitality in welfare states / Maartje van der Woude, Katja Franko and Vanessa Barker -- Emergency care between state and civil society : the open clinic for irregular migrants / Kaspar Villadsen -- "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 / Kristina Helgesson Kjellin -- Hospitality, reciprocity, and power relations in the home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland / Paula Marikoski -- What about no-bodies? Embodied belonging, unspecific strangers, and religious hospitality in Norway / Helena Schmidt -- Intertwined hospitalities in a Danish church / Laura Bjørg Serup Petersen -- Between belonging and exclusion : migrants resilience in a Norwegian welfare prison / Dorina Damsa -- The significance of the individual vocation : encountering living civil society agents in northern Norway and southern Sweden / Kaia Schultz Rønsdal -- Conclusion / Synnøve Bendixsen and Trygve Wyller.

In this book, leading public anthropologists examine paths toward public engagement and discuss their experiences with engaged anthropology in arenas such as the media, international organizations, courtrooms and halls of government. They discuss topics such as migration and cultural understanding, justice, development aid, ethnic conflict, war, and climate change. Through examples of hands-on experience, this book also provides a unique accoutn of challenges faced, opportunities taken, and lessons learned. It illustrates the potential efficacy of an anthropology that engages with critical social and political issues

Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1: Recalibrating Alterity, Difference, Ontology: Anthropological Engagements with Human and Non-Human Worlds -- Knowing the World: What and How -- Singularity or Multiplicity: Ontology and the Human -- Alterity and Difference, or the Engines of the Ontological Turn -- Vistas -- Materialities -- Politics -- Recalibrations. Assessments, Critiques and Exits -- Conclusion -- Chapter Overview -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Vistas -- Chapter 2: The Relationality of Species in Chewong Animistic Ontology -- Chewong Metaphysics and Ontology -- Bongso and the Elephants -- My Research on Chewong Cosmology -- Connectedness and Separation: Chewong Notions of Consciousness, "Speciesness", Relatedness, and Vision -- Shamanic Qualities and Power -- Separation and Metamorphosis -- Post-Humanism and Human Exceptionalism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Alterity, Predation, and Questions of Representation: The Problem of the Kharisiri in the Andes -- "Ontologizing Difference", or Partial Connections? -- Powerful Entities and Beings -- Historical Continuities -- The Significance of Fat -- The Question of Predation -- The Capacity of Conversion -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: False Prophets? Ontological Conflicts and Religion-Making in an Indonesian Court -- Introduction -- New Prophets? -- Religion-Making in Indonesia -- Between Revelation and Deviance -- Creating Incommensurable Worlds in Court -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Newspaper -- Chapter 5: Chronically Unstable Ontology: Ontological Dynamics, Radical Alterity, and the "Otherwise Within" -- Ontological Closures -- Reversibility of the Otherwise -- Ifugao Ontological Dynamics -- Another "Otherwise" -- Ontological Openings -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Materialities

"This book discusses egalitarianism in Scandinavian countries through historically oriented and empirically based studies on social and political change. The chapters engage with issues related to social class, political conflict, the emergence of the welfare state, public policy, and conceptualizations of equality. Throughout, the contributors discuss and sometimes challenge existing notions of the social and cultural complexity of Scandinavia. For example, how does egalitarianism in these nations differ from other contemporary manifestations of egalitarianism? Is it meaningful to continue to nurture the idea of Scandinavian exceptionalism in an age of economic crises and globalization? The book also proposes that egalitarianism is not merely a relationship between specific, influential enlightenment ideas and patterns of policy, but an aspect of social organization characterized by specific forms of political tension, mobilization, and conflict resolution-as well as emerging cultural values such as individual autonomy."--