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Record Nr.

UNINA9910131778103321

Titolo

Religion in the New Europe / / ed. by Krzysztof Michalski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Central European University Press, 2006

Budapest ; ; New York : , : Central European University Press, , [2022]

©2006

ISBN

9786155053900

615-5053-90-1

2-8218-1505-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 p.)

Soggetti

RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Religion and European Integration -- Religion, European Secular Identities and European Integration -- Judeo-Christian Heritage and Secularisation -- The Role of Religion in Establishing Social Cohesion -- Integration and Fragmentation: Patterns of Religion in Europe -- Observations from America -- Muslims and Islam in Europe -- Muslims and European Multiculturalism -- Is Islam a Threat to Europe’s Multicultural Democracies? -- Islam, European Public Space and Civility -- Islam in Europe: Clash of Religions or Convergence of Religiosities? -- List of Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

The articles in this volume deal with the role of Christianity in the definition of European identity. Europeans often identify advanced civilizations with secularity. But religion is very much alive in other fast developing countries of the world. In Europe, nevertheless, the organized churches very much wanted to stress the Christian character of European identity, and this engendered a lively protest focusing on the perceived threat to the secular European tradition. Also, Europe is facing its greatest cultural challenge in the demand of Turkey to be admitted as a member, and in the demand of many Muslims in Europe, often citizens of the countries in which they live, to be recognized in their difference and at the same time integrated in the European



national and supranational institutions.