Religion in an expanding Europe / edited by Timothy A. Byrnes and Peter J. Katzenstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Byrnes, Timothy A., 1958- editor.

Katzenstein, Peter J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union.

Religion and politics--European Union countries.

Religion and politics.

Political culture--European Union countries.

Political culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 352 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With political controversies raging over issues such as the wearing of headscarves in schools and the mention of Christianity in the European Constitution, religious issues are of growing importance in European politics. In this volume, Byrnes and Katzenstein analyze the effect that enlargement to countries with different and stronger religious traditions may have on the EU as a whole, and in particular on its homogeneity and assumed secular nature. Looking through the lens of the transnational religious communities of Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Islam, they argue that religious factors are stumbling blocks rather than stepping stones toward the further integration of Europe. All three religious traditions are advancing notions of European identity and European union that differ substantially from how the European integration process is generally understood by political leaders and scholars. This volume makes an important addition to the fields of European politics, political sociology, and the sociology of religion.

Contents:

Multiple modernities as limits to secular Europeanization? / Peter J. Katzanstein

Part I: European settings

Faith, freedom, and federation : the role of religious ideas and institutions in European political convergence / Daniel Philpott and Timothy Samuel Shah

Religion, European secular identities, and European integration / José Casanova

Part II: Catholicism

The old Church and the new Europe : charting the changes / J. Bryan Hehir

Thy will be done : the Catholic Church and politics in Poland since 1989 / Sabrina P. Ramet

Part III: Orthodoxy

The way we were

and should be again? European Orthodox Churches and the 'idyllic past' / Sabrina P. Ramet

The politics of ambivalence : Europeanization and the Serbian Orthodox Church / Vjekoslav Perica

Part IV: Islam

Europeanizing Islam or the Islamization of Europe : political democracy vs. cultural difference / Bassam Tibi

Islam and Europeanization in Turkish-Muslim socio-political movements / M. Hakan Yavuz

Part V: Conclusion

Religion, European identity, and political contention in historical perspective / Daniel Nexon

Transnational religion and Europeanization / Timothy A. Byrnes.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-336) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-15629-7

1-280-45859-3

0-511-19163-4

0-511-16187-5

0-511-16057-7

0-511-31328-4

0-511-49191-3

0-511-16114-X

OCLC:

252519699