Religion and politics in the European Union : the secular canopy
François Foret
Bok · Engelsk · 2015 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | New York : : Cambridge University Press, , cop. 2015
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| Omfang | XIV, 323 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter Outlines; 1 Religion in the Framing of a European Polity; Religion and European Integration as a Process; Neo-Functionalism: Are Gods Part of the Spillover Effect?; Intergovernmentalism: National Religions; Multilevel Governance: A Description of Religious Interest Representations; Neo-Institutionalisms: National Path Dependencies, Deinstitutionalized Religion; Religion and the EU as a Full Polity. - Is It Necessary (and Possible) to Be Religious as a European Representative?MEPs as a Secularized Elite; A Basic Consensus on Separation between Politics and Religion; Comparison with the United States: Secularism Replaces Religion in the Selection of Representatives; Religion in the Recruitment of other European Elites; God in the Shadow of the Law: European Judges; Serving the EU and no Other Master: European Civil Servants and Entrepreneurs of Europe; 3 Religion in the European Electoral Process: More than a Trace, Less than a Path; Religion before Elections: A Trace in Party Manifestos. - Religion and the EU as a Consociation of States: Keeping Religious Passions Mild and NationalReligion and the EU as a Federation: Demarcating Spheres of Competences, Drawing Ethical Lines; Prohibiting Violence, Respecting Diversity; Subsidiarity as a Protection of Religion from Politics?; Religion and the EU as Empire: Fixing Internal and External Boundaries; Religion as a Demarcation Line of the EU: Inside/Outside, Us/Them; The EU in the World Empire; The EU as a Neo-Medieval Empire; The EU as a Postsecular Cosmopolitan Empire; Varying Interactions between Religion and Empires. - The EU and Religion: Empire as Usual?Religious Memories of Empires and Present-Day Symbolic Effects.; 2 Religion in the Selection of European Rulers; Is It Necessary (and Sufficient) to Be a Christian Democrat to Be a Builder of Europe?; Christian Democratic Europe as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy; Vatican Europe, Really?; The Religious Inspiration of the Founding Fathers: Its Scope and Limits; Christian Democracy and European Integration: A Family Story, with Family Feuds; The Eastern Limits of Christian Democratic Europe; Identity and Doctrinal Influence of Political Christianity. - The Influence of Nationality and Political Affiliation: Tradition and Distinction. - Traditional Values as an Emerging Topic in a Secularizing EuropeTraditional Morality as a Symbolic Marker Rather than a Cleavage Maker; A Second-Order but Developing Topic; Traditional Morality over Time; Traditional Morality across Countries; Traditional Morality across Party Families; Communicative Uses of Religion during Election Periods by Political Groups at the EP; Religion after the Elections: Strategic Uses in Questions Asked by MEPs; Questioning Religion: External Incentives, National Determinations; A Marginal, Subordinate Subject. - This book analyzes the place and influence of religion in European politics.
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| ISBN | 9781107082717. - 9781107443129
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