Attempting an overview of religion's significance in the fashioning of Europe is a Herculean task. So far as it is humanly achievable, however, Grace Davie and Lucian Leustean, together with their army of contributors, have succeeded mightily ... It will be foundational for the work of researchers in diverse fields for decades to come.
Grace Davie is Professor Emeritus in the Sociology of Religion at the University of Exeter. She has held visiting appointments at Uppsala University, the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in Paris, and is a member of the Academia Europaea. Her publications include Religion in Britain since 1945 (Blackwell, 1994), Religion in Modern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2000), Europe: The Exceptional Case (DLT, 2002), The Sociology of Religion (Sage, 2007/2013), and Religion in Britain: A Persistent Paradox (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015).
Lucian N. Leustean is Reader in Politics and International Relations at Aston University, Birmingham. His publications include Forced Migration and Human Security in the Eastern Orthodox World (Routledge, 2019), Eastern Christianity and Politics in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2014), and The Ecumenical Movement and the Making of the European Community (Oxford University Press, 2014). He is the Founding Editor of the Routledge Book Series on Religion, Society and Government in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet States.