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Annual of European and Global Studies

Religion and PoliticsEuropean and Global Perspectives

Edited by Johann P. Arnason and Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski

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Shows religion and politics to be a key connecting link between European and global affairs

  • Discusses the role of religion and its prospects in the contemporary world against a backdrop of migration and growing secularisation
  • Draws on both theoretical and empirical research
  • Covers topics including secularism, religious nationalism, democracy and revolutions

Combining theoretical and empirical research, these 12 essays examine the role of religion and its prospects in Europe. The book shows that, if European modernity represents an exit from religion, this historical process and its implications are still very imperfectly understood. On the one hand, the volume discusses the growing Islamic presence in Europe as a reminder of enduring religious pluralism, not least in view of the high prominence given to Islamic experience in arguments against over-generalised notions of secularisation. On the other, the question of Christian-motivated extremism and religious nationalism is equally explored. Against this background, contributors to the volume discuss also the role of religion in non-European countries including China, Japan, Russia and the MENA region.

Table of contents
  1. Introduction
    Johann P. Arnason and Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski
  2. The Religio-Political Nexus: Historical and Comparative Reflections
    Johann P. Arnason
  3. Politics and Religion in a Global Age
    Jeffrey Haynes
  4. Comparative Secularisms and the Politics of Modernity
    Elizabeth Hurd and Linnell Cady
  5. Europe in the Global Rise of Religious Nationalism
    Mark Juergensmeyer
  6. European Civil Religion in the Making?
    Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski
  7. Democracy, Secularism and Islam in Turkey
    Ayhan Kaya
  8. Orthodox Religion and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia
    Mikhail Maslovskiy and Nikita Shangin
  9. Religion and Politics, Church and State in Chinese History
    John Lagerwey
  10. Religion and the State in Contemporary Japan
    Elisabetta Porcu
  11. Arab Revolutions and Political Islam: A Structural Approach
    Karel Černý
  12. Beyond Post-Secularism: Religion in Political Analysis (Review Article)
    Michal Matlak

Notes on the Contributors
Index

About the contributors

Johann P. Arnason

Johann P. Arnason is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Human Studies at Charles University, Prague. He taught sociology in Heidelberg and Bielefeld from 1972 to 1975, and at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, from 1975 to 2003. He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and at the University of Leipzig, and a research fellow of the Alexander v. Humboldt-Stiftung, the Swedish Institute of Advanced Studies, the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (Essen), the Lichtenberg-Kolleg in Göttingen and the Max-Weber-Kolleg in Erfurt. His research interests centre on social theory and historical sociology, with particular emphasis on the comparative analysis of civilizations.

Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski

Ireneusz P. Karolewski is Head of the Political Studies Department in the The Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies at the University of Wrocław. He graduated and received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Potsdam in Germany. He was Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Potsdam from 1999 to 2008. He has held guest professorships and fellowships at the Harvard University, the Université de Montréal, Institut D’Etudes Politiques in Lille, the University of California in Santa Barbara and the New York University. He is co-convenor of the ECPR Standing Group on Identity and managing editor of the Annual of European and Global Studies, published by Edinburgh University Press.

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