Religion, Politics and Law in the European Union

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Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-09-21
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

This edited volume examines the activities of religious actors in the context of supranational European institutions, and the ways in which they have responded to the idea of Europe at local and international levels. It considers changing religious identities; the role of political / religious leaders; and EU legislation on religion.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Religious Identity and the European Union
Religion: A Solution or a Problem for the Legitimization of the European Union?
Religion and European Integration, Secularism (Lacit)
A European Battlefield - Does the EU Have a Soul?
From Sickle to Crescent: The Question of Religion for European Identity
European Enlargement, Secularization and Religious Republicization in Central and Eastern Europe
Religious and Political Leaders in the Construction of the European Union
The French and Italian Christian Democrats, 1949-1955
The Europeist efforts of Alcide De Gasperi and the Proposals of Antonio Messineo: A Spiritual Conception of Politics Meeting a Pragmatic Idea of Religion?
In the Name of Europe: The Papal Thought on Europe and European Union
Aix-en-Provence Religion and Law in the European Union
Toward a Common Law on Religion in the European Union
Mark Hill, Voices in the Wilderness: The Established Church of England and the European Union
"Positive Secularism" and its Development in the Italian Legal System
Religious Lobbies in the European Union
Churches as INGOs and EU Policy Experts? The Europeanization of Religious Organizations
Religious Lobbies in the European Union: The Political Role of Western European Christian Churches
European Union and New Religions
Article 52.3: The Logic of Structured Dialogue between Religious Associations and the Institutions of the European Union
List of contributors
Index
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