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Record Nr.

UNINA9910540119803321

Titolo

Rethinking the space for religion : new actors in central and southeast on religion, authenticity and belonging / / edited by Catharina Raudvere, Krzysztof Stala & Trine Stauning Willert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lund, Sweden : , : Nordic Academic Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

91-87121-95-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Disciplina

813.6

Soggetti

Christianity - European Union

Electronic books.

Europe Religion

European Union Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Conflicting Constructions - National Narratives in Europe; 1. Rethinking the Space for Religion; Negotiating European Belonging and the Uses of Religion; 2. Religion, Gender and History; 3. Romania's Cultural Identity and the European Challenge; 4. Cultural Religion or Religious Purism; Religion and National Heritage in Central Europe; 5. Duke Widukind and Charlemagne in Twentieth-Century Germany; 6. Myth of Victimhood and Cult of Authenticity; 7. Open Catholicism vs. Theocratic Impulses; Religious Strategies in a Post-1989 Perspective

8. Remembering the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia9. The Role of Orthodox Christianity in Greece; 10. Exploring the Particularin the Global World; Myths and Museums - Old Stories, New Uses; 11. Framing Uses of the Past; 12. Recycling Ancient Narrations on a Post-modern Market; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

A broad discussion about how history and religion contribute to identity politics in contemporary Europe, this book provides case studies exemplifying how public intellectuals and academics have taken an active part in the construction of recent and traditional pasts.



Instead of repeating the simplistic explanation as a "return of religion," this volume focuses on public platforms and agents and their use of religion as a political and cultural argument. Filled with previously unpublished data-gathered from texts, interviews, field observations, artifacts, and material culture-this record chal