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Author : Karel Sládek,Mlada Mikulicová,Miloš Szabo,Rotter Lucyna,Marecki Józef,Bravená Noemi,Petro Marek,Vojtěch Mašek,Gabriel Paľa,Rocio Daga Portillo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3706910438
Author : Lucia Faltin,Melanie J. Wright
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826494825
This volume provides a coherent critical examination of current issues related to the religious roots of contemporary, i.e. post-1990 European identity. This book has taken a multi and interdisciplinary approach, analysing the religious roots of Europe's identity today, with a focus on the secular context of religious communities. This will serve the readers to perceive their own identity in a wider context of shared values, reaching beyond a particular faith or non-religious framework.
Author : Mary Anne Perkins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110914610
This book critically explores the idea of Europe since the French Revolution from the perspective of intellectual history. It traces the dominant and recurring theme of Europe-as-Christendom in discourse concerning the relationship of religion, politics and society, in historiography and hermeneutics, and in theories and constructions of identity and ‘otherness’. It examines the evolution of a grand narrative by which European elites have sought to define European and national identity. This narrative, the author argues, maintains the existence of common historical and intellectual roots, common values, culture and religion. The book explores its powerful legacy in the positive creation of a sense of European unity, the ways in which it has been exploited for ideological purposes, and its impact on non-Christian communities within Europe.
Author : Evert Van de Poll
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788376560380
Combining human interest stories with thought provoking analyses, Dr Evert Van de Poll paints the socio-cultural and religious picture of this exceptional continent: its population and cultural variety; past and present idea of ‘we Europeans’; immigration, multiculturalism and the issue of (Muslim) integration; the construction of the EU and the concerns it raises; and the quest for the ‘soul’ of Europe. Special attention is paid to Christian and other roots of Europe; the mixed historical record of Christianity; vestiges of its past dominance; its place and influence in today’s societies that are rapidly de-Christianising; and secularization as a European phenomenon. The author indicates specific challenges for Church development, mission and social service. In so doing, he outlines the contours of a contextualised communication of the Gospel.
Author : Brent F. Nelsen,James L. Guth
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781626160712
In Religion and the Struggle for European Union, Brent F. Nelsen and James L. Guth delve into the powerful role of religion in shaping European attitudes on politics, political integration, and the national and continental identities of its leaders and citizens. Nelsen and Guth contend that for centuries Catholicism promoted the universality of the Church and the essential unity of Christendom. Protestantism, by contrast, esteemed particularity and feared Catholic dominance. These differing visions of Europe have influenced the process of postwar integration in profound ways. Nelsen and Guth compare the Catholic view of Europe as a single cultural entity best governed as a unified polity against traditional Protestant estrangement from continental culture and its preference for pragmatic cooperation over the sacrifice of sovereignty. As the authors show, this deep cultural divide, rooted in the struggles of the Reformation, resists the ongoing secularization of the continent. Unless addressed, it threatens decades of hard-won gains in security and prosperity. Farsighted and rich with data, Religion and the Struggle for European Union offers a pragmatic way forward in the EU's attempts to solve its social, economic, and political crises.
Author : John Carter Wood
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783647101491
This collection explores how Christian individuals and institutions – whether Churches, church-related organisations, clergy, or lay thinkers – combined the topics of faith and national identity in twentieth-century Europe. "National identity" is understood in a broad sense that includes discourses of citizenship, narratives of cultural or linguistic belonging, or attributions of distinct, "national" characteristics. The collection addresses Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox perspectives, considers various geographical contexts, and takes into account processes of cross-national exchange and transfer. It shows how national and denominational identities were often mutually constitutive, at times leading to a strongly exclusionary stance against "other" national or religious groups. In different circumstances, religiously minded thinkers critiqued nationalism, emphasising the universalist strains of their faith, with varying degrees of success. Moreover, throughout the century, and especially since 1945, both church officials and lay Christians have had to come to terms with the relationship between their national and "European" identities and have sought to position themselves within the processes of Europeanisation. Various contexts for the negotiation of faith and nation are addressed: media debates, domestic and international political arenas, inner-denominational and ecumenical movements, church organisations, cosmopolitan intellectual networks and the ideas of individual thinkers.
Author : Alex Drace-Francis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137368195
What is Europe? A continent? A political institution? A cultural community? Bringing together 101 key texts on the theme of European identity, this reader provides essential insights into the idea of 'Europe', from 450 BC to the twenty first century. The only collection of its kind in English, it includes rare and newly translated material alongside classic texts from antiquity and the Enlightenment, from figures as diverse as Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Winston S. Churchill and Julia Kristeva. Space is also given to views of Europe from the outside, including Asian, African, Latin American, US and Caribbean authors. With an introductory overview, notes on each text, and a guide to further reading, Alex Drace-Francis brings issues of European identity into sharp relief for both teachers and students of European history, geography, culture and politics.
Author : Krzysztof Michalski
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9786155053900
The articles in this volume deal with the role of Christianity in the definition of European identity. Europeans often identify advanced civilizations with secularity. But religion is very much alive in other fast developing countries of the world. In Europe, nevertheless, the organized churches very much wanted to stress the Christian character of European identity, and this engendered a lively protest focusing on the perceived threat to the secular European tradition. Also, Europe is facing its greatest cultural challenge in the demand of Turkey to be admitted as a member, and in the demand of many Muslims in Europe, often citizens of the countries in which they live, to be recognized in their difference and at the same time integrated in the European national and supranational institutions.
Author : Ildar H. Garipzanov
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
ISBN : 2503533671
This volume presents the first comprehensive overview of the major early historical narratives created in Northern, East-Central, and Eastern Europe between c. 1070 and c. 1200, with each chapter providing a short introduction to the narrative in question. Most chapters are written by established experts in their fields, who have published critical editions of the discussed narratives, their English translations, or analytical works dealing with early history writing in corresponding regions. However, the volume is more than just a summary of various narratives. Despite being written in such different languages as Latin, Old Norse, and Old Church Slavonic, these narratives played similar roles for their reading audiences, in that they were crucial in the construction of Christian identity in the lands recently converted to Christianity. The thirteen authors contemplate the extent to which this identity formation affected the nature of narrativity in these early historical works. The authors ask how the pagan past and Christian present were incorporated in the texture of the narratives, and address the relative importance of classical and biblical models for their composition and structure. By addressing such questions, the volume offers medievalists a coherent comparative study of early history writing in the peripheral regions of medieval Europe in the first centuries after conversion.
Author : Paul Bayley,Geoffrey Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199602308
European Identity examines how Europe is represented linguistically in the news media of 4 EU countries: France, Italy, Poland, and the UK, through the use of an electronic corpus built from newspapers and tv news transcripts. The main aim is to demonstrate how linguistic analysis can make a key contribution to the analysis of political issues
Author : W. Spohn,M. Koenig,W. Knöbl
Publisher : Springer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230390775
This volume analyzes changing relationships between religion and national identity in the course of European integration. Examining elite discourse, media debates and public opinions across Europe over a decade, it explores how accelerated European integration and Eastern enlargement have affected religious markers of collective identity.
Author : Jeffrey T. Checkel,Peter J. Katzenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521883016
An ambitious volume which asks why hopes are fading for a single European identity, despite decades of European integration.
Author : G. Delanty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230379657
A critical analysis of the idea of Europe and the limits and possibilities of a European identity in the broader perspective of history. This book argues that the crucial issue is the articulation of a new identity that is based on post-national citizenship rather than ambivalent notions of unity.
Author : Hermann-Josef Blanke,Stelio Mangiameli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1821 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783642317064
The major Commentary on the Treaty on European Union (TEU) is a European project that aims to contribute to the development of ever closer conceptual and dogmatic standpoints with regard to the creation of a “Europeanised research on Union law”. This publication in English contains detailed explanations, article by article, on all the provisions of the TEU as well as on several Protocols and Declarations, including the Protocols No 1, 2 and 30 and Declaration No 17, having steady regard to the application of Union law in the national legal orders and its interpretation by the Court of Justice of the EU. The authors of the Commentary are academics from ten European states and different legal fields, some from a constitutional law background, others experts in the field of international law and EU law professionals. This should lead to more unity in European law notwithstanding all the legitimate diversity. The different traditions of constitutional law are reflected and mentioned by name thus striving for a common framework for European constitutional law.
Author : Jonathan Boyarin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0369321618
Europe's formative encounter with its ''others'' is still widely assumed to have come with its discovery of the peoples of the New World. But, as Jonathan Boyarin argues, long before 1492 Christian Europe imagined itself in distinction to the Jewish difference within. The presence and image of Jews in Europe afforded the Christian majority a foil against which it could refine and maintain its own identity. In fundamental ways this experience, along with the ongoing contest between Christianity and Islam, shaped the rhetoric, attitudes, and policies of Christian colonizers in the New World. The Unconverted Self proposes that questions of difference inside Christian Europe not only are inseparable from the painful legacy of colonialism but also reveal Christian domination to be a fragile construct. Boyarin compares the Christian efforts aimed toward European Jews and toward indigenous peoples of the New World, bringing into focus the intersection of colonial expansion with the Inquisition and adding significant nuance to the entire question of the colonial encounter. Revealing the crucial tension between the Jews as ''others within'' and the Indians as ''others without, '' The Unconverted Self is a major reassessment of early modern European identity.
