@article{BecciHafner2022,
  author    = {Becci, Irene and Hafner, Johann Evangelist},
  title     = {A New Synagogue, a Garrison Church, and a Mosque},
  series = {Space and Culture},
  volume    = {26},
  journal   = {Space and Culture},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Sage Publications},
  address   = {Thousand Oaks, Calif.},
  issn      = {1552-8308},
  doi       = {10.1177/12063312221134572},
  pages     = {215 -- 228},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {In postsocialist Potsdam, religious diversity has risen surprisingly in public life since 1990 although more than 80\% of the residents have no religious affiliation. City and state authorities have actively embraced issues around immigration and integration as well as the promotion of religious diversity and interreligious dialogue and have linked this to the agenda of rejuvenating the city's religious heritage. For years, negotiations have been going on about the need of a mosque, the reconstructions of a synagogue and the so-called "Garrison Church," a landmark military church building. These initiatives have been dominating the public space for different reasons. They implied, beyond religion, questions of memory, identity, immigration, and culture. This article puts these three cases into perspective to offer a nuanced understanding of the importance of religious spaces in secular contexts considering city politics.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Schuster2020,
  author    = {Schuster, Dirk},
  title     = {Exclusive border crossing considerations on exclusive, inner-religious demarcations},
  series = {Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society : J-RaT},
  volume    = {5},
  journal   = {Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society : J-RaT},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Brill},
  address   = {Leiden},
  issn      = {2365-3140},
  doi       = {10.30965/23642807-00502009},
  pages     = {469 -- 492},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {From 1933, the inner Protestant 'German Christians Church Movement' from Thuringia took control over some Protestant regional churches in Germany. For the German Christians the main motives of their agitation were the creation of a 'volkisch' belief system based on race, Christianity and 'dejudaization' (of Christianity). <br /> Based on the theoretical considerations of spaces, boundaries and exclusion, the article uses the example of the German Christians to show under which conditions individuals are denied entry into an imaginary religious space. 'Exclusivist border crossings,' as this phenomena is named here on the theoretical perspective, can explain how religious arguments exclude people from entering a religious space such as salvation when the access criteria are linked to birth-related conditions.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ForlenzaTurner2019,
  author    = {Forlenza, Rosario and Turner, Bryan S.},
  title     = {Das Abendland},
  series = {Critical research on religion : crr},
  volume    = {7},
  journal   = {Critical research on religion : crr},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Sage Publ.},
  address   = {Thousand Oaks},
  issn      = {2050-3032},
  doi       = {10.1177/2050303218774891},
  pages     = {6 -- 23},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {The religious borders of Europe, which are more evident and controversial than ever, challenge established forms of political legitimacy and the legal requirements for citizenship. Perhaps covertly rather than overtly, they shape politics and policies. While scholars have once again resorted to Edward Said's Orientalism to describe the dynamic at play, this article argues that the Orientalism narrative of East and West is too simple to capture the actual complexity of Europe's borders. There are four religious and thus four cultural-symbolic borders, which are increasingly defining the continent: north-western Europe is Protestant, southern Europe is Catholic, the East is Orthodox and increasingly nationalist, and the South and Near East are Muslim. The cultural purity and the values that Europe craves in search of identity and order are simply not available in a world of global interconnectedness and social diversity.},
  language  = {en}
}