Religion and Politics: European and Global Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780748691739 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 224 str.

Arnason, Johann P.

Opis

Combining theoretical and empirical research, these 12 essays examine the role of religion and its prospects in Europe. On the one hand, the volume discusses 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 hand, it explores the question of Christian motivated extremism and religious nationalism. Against this background, the contributors discuss the role of religion in other countries throughout the worldincluding China, Japan, Russia and the MENA region.
Debates on religion and politics have, to a high degree, focused on contrasts between Europe and other parts of the world; the long-established assumption that modern societies are on a secularising path seemed have a stronger claim to validity in Europe than elsewhere. This book shows that, if European modernity does represent an exit from religion, this historical process and its implications are still very imperfectly understood.

Spis treści

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.