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This chapter examines the relationship between the legal field and religion, looking in particular at the discourses of judges in the administrative court. Nijhawan arrives at a new understanding of the cultural transactions and interpretations that inform adjudication in the field of asylum law since the 1980s in Germany. The chapter traces the production of credibility and shows how judges and courts (including the EuHC) develop theories of religious persecution that intersect with Ahmadiyya theological discourses. A key contribution lies in the discussion of the relationship between the forum internum and forum externum in the context of asylum law, which is of interest for the study of the politics of religious freedom.
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Nijhawan, M. (2016). The Radiating Effect of the Asylum Court on Religion. In: The Precarious Diasporas of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Generations. Religion and Global Migrations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48854-1_4
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