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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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Identities and Modernities in Europe
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Identities and Modernities in Europe.
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| Summary |
This volume analyzes the changing relationships between religion and national identity in the course of European integration. Presenting results from cross-national comparative research on elite discourse, media debates and public opinions in Germany, Poland, Greece and Turkey from 1990-2010, it examines how accelerated European integration and Eastern enlargement have affected religious markers of collective identity. Critically engaging with secularist assumptions in the social scientific literatures on nationalism and European integration, the collection demonstrates that the Europeanization of collective identities does not necessarily imply reducing the salience of religion. Rather, the emergence of a European polity can prompt the reactive reaffirmation of religious nationalisms and lead to the re-embedding of religious components of collective identity within broader transnational frameworks. As the contributions in this book show, explaining such changing relationships between religion and national identity requires attention to long-standing civilizational traditions, short-term dynamics of symbolic boundary-making as well as institutional trajectories of state-church-relations. |
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1. Religion, Nationalism and European Integration : Introduction; Matthias Koenig and Wolfgang Knbl -- 2. The (Fragile) Normalization of German Identity within Europe; Willfried Spohn -- 3. Changing Frameworks of National Identity in Post-communist Poland; Mikolaj Lewicki and Slawomir Mandes -- 4. Greek Identity and Europe : Entanglements and Tensions; Effie Fokas and Evangelos Karagiannis -- 5. Turkey in Europe, Europe in Turkey : History, Elites, and the Media; Levent Soysal, Saime Ozmez and Cagla Diner -- 6. Religious Dimensions of National and European Identities: Evidence from Cross-national Survey Research; Sabine Trittler, Slawomir Mandes and Matthias Koenig -- 7. Varieties of Religious Nationalism; Matthias Koenig and Wolfgang Knbl. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nationalism -- Religious aspects.
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Nationalism -- Religious aspects. |
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Nationalism -- Europe.
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Nationalism. |
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Europe. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
| Added Author |
Koenig, Matthias, author.
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Knöbl, Wolfgang, 1963- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Spohn, Willfried, 1944- Religion and national identities in an enlarged Europe 9780230390768 (DLC) 2015002378 (OCoLC)900913409 |
| ISBN |
9780230390775 (electronic book) |
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0230390773 (electronic book) |
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1349596558 |
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9781349596553 |
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9781349596553 (print) |
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9780230390768 |
| Standard No. |
10.1057/9780230390775 |
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