Religion and National Identities in an Enlarged Europe [recurso electrónico

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. 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 Front Matter....Pages i-xii Religion, Nationalism, and European Integration: Introduction....Pages 1-16 The (Fragile) Normalization of German Identity Within Europe....Pages 17-38 Changing Frameworks of National Identity in Post-communist Poland....Pages 39-67 Greek Identity and Europe: Entanglements and Tensions....Pages 68-95 Turkey in Europe, Europe in Turkey: History, Elites, and the Media....Pages 96-123 Religious Dimensions of National and European Identities: Evidence from Cross-national Survey Research....Pages 124-145 Varieties of Religious Nationalism....Pages 146-162 Back Matter....Pages 163-187