Religion in an Expanding Europe

Byrnes, Timothy A

Religion in an Expanding Europe - New York Cambridge University 2008 - 352p

includes index and biblioraphy

Multiple modernities as limits to secular Europeanization?............1 Part 1 : European settings Faith, freedom and federation : the role of religious ideas and institutions in European political convergence ....34 Religion, European secular identities and European integration..65 Part II : Catholicism The old church and the new Europe : CHarting the changes ..............93 Thy will be done: the catholic church and politics in Poland since 1989.......117 Part III : Orthodoxy The way we were - and Should be again? European orthodox churches and the Idyllic Past...........148 The politics of ambivalence :Europeanization and the serbian orthodox church......176 Part IV: Islam Europeanizing islam or the islamization of Europe : Political Democracy vs. Cultural Differnece.........204 Islam and Europeanization in Turkish-Muslim socio-Political Movements.............225 Part V: Conclusion Religion, European Identity and political Contention in Historical perspective............256 Transnational religion and Europeanization.....283 2

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