Neighbours Near and Far: How a Biblical Figure is Used in Recent European Anti-Migration Politics
In: Biblical InterpretationFaculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, karin.neutel@umu.se
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Abstract
References to the Bible in European politics rarely are the subject of research by biblical scholars. Claims about Christianity and about themes and stories from the Bible, which have made a remarkable appearance in political discourse recently, especially in discussions of migration, have therefore gone unnoticed in our discipline. This paper wants to put this topic on the map by exploring three cases, from the Netherlands, Norway, and Germany, where politicians make an argument against accepting migrants, by appealing to neighbourly love and the story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25–37). We ask whether the Bible appears here in its ‘liberal’ form, which scholars have shown to be a prevalent form of the Bible in US and UK politics, or whether we are seeing the development of a different political Bible.
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Neighbours Near and Far: How a Biblical Figure is Used in Recent European Anti-Migration Politics
In: Biblical InterpretationFaculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, karin.neutel@umu.se
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Abstract
References to the Bible in European politics rarely are the subject of research by biblical scholars. Claims about Christianity and about themes and stories from the Bible, which have made a remarkable appearance in political discourse recently, especially in discussions of migration, have therefore gone unnoticed in our discipline. This paper wants to put this topic on the map by exploring three cases, from the Netherlands, Norway, and Germany, where politicians make an argument against accepting migrants, by appealing to neighbourly love and the story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25–37). We ask whether the Bible appears here in its ‘liberal’ form, which scholars have shown to be a prevalent form of the Bible in US and UK politics, or whether we are seeing the development of a different political Bible.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 956 | 214 | 19 |
| Full Text Views | 327 | 29 | 1 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 762 | 73 | 1 |
