The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe

Edited by Grace Davie and Lucian N. Leustean

Oxford Handbooks

Features contributions from leading scholars providing crucial insight into the religious ideas, structures, and institutions in the making of Europe
Introduces the building blocks of Europe's religions and the part that they played in the formation of the continent
Explores the relationship between religious communities and ideologies in the twentieth century - connections that play out very differently in East and West Europe
Examines the role of religion in the construction of the European Union from the end of the Second World War until the present day
Assesses the relationship between the major world religions and the idea of Europe

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe

Edited by Grace Davie and Lucian N. Leustean

Description

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe offers a detailed overview of religious ideas, structures, and institutions in the making of Europe. It examines the role of religion in fostering identity, survival, and tolerance in the empires and nation-states of Europe from Antiquity until today; the interplay between religion, politics and ideologies in the twentieth century; the dialogue between religious communities and European institutions in the construction of the European Union; and the engagement of Catholicism, Protestantism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Islam, Judaism, and Eastern religions with the idea of Europe. The collection closes with an overview of European nation states, focusing on history, demography, legal perspectives, political authorities, societal changes, and current trends. Written by leading scholars in the field, the Handbook is an authoritative and up-to-date volume which demonstrates the enduring presence of lived and institutionalized religion in the social networks of identity, policy, and power over two millennia of European history.

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe

Edited by Grace Davie and Lucian N. Leustean

Oxford Handbooks

List of Contributors
List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Chronology
Map
1. Religion and Europe: Methods, Theories and Approaches, Grace Davie and Lucian N. Leustean
Part I: Religion and the Making of Europe
2. Religion and Classical Europe, Twelfth Century BCE-600 CE, Christoph Auffarth
3. Religion and Latin Western Europe, 600-1500, Geoffrey Koziol
4. Religion and Orthodox Eastern Europe, 600-1500, Matthew C. Briel
5. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Medieval Europe, Ryan Szpiech
6. Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe, Jonathan Willis
7. The Enlightenment and Religion in Europe, Paschalis M. Kitromilides
8. Religion and Revolution in Europe, Bryan A. Banks and Erica Johnson Edwards
9. Religion and Nationality in Europe, Steven Grosby
Part II: Religion, Ideology, and Modernity in Europe
10. Religion and Dictatorship in Europe, Richard Steigmann-Gall
11. Christian Democracy and Europe, Kees van Kersbergen
12. Religion and the Cold War in Europe, Dianne Kirby
13. Religion and Europe after the Fall of the Iron Curtain, Lucian Turcescu and Lavinia Stan
14. Religion-State Relations in Europe, John T. S. Madeley
15. Religion, Secularity, and Secularization in Europe, Grace Davie
Part III: Religious Dialogue, Public Policy, and International Institutions in Europe
16. Religion and Politics in the European Union, Lucian N. Leustean
17. Religion and Law in the European Union, Norman Doe and Frank Cranmer
18. Religion and the European Parliament, François Foret
19. Religion and the European External Action Service, François Foret
20. The Conference of European Churches, Peter Pavlovic
21. The Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community (COMECE), Frank Turner SJ
22. Religion and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, W. Cole Durham, Jr.
23. Religion, Belief, and the European Court of Human Rights, Peter Cumper and Tom Lewis
24. Religion and the United Nations, Jeffrey Haynes
Part IV: Religious Diversity, World Religions, and the Idea of Europe
25. Roman Catholicism and Europe, Petr Kratochvíl
26. Protestantism and Europe, Brent F. Nelsen and James L. Guth
27. Eastern Orthodoxy and Europe, Effie Fokas
28. Islam and Europe, Jocelyne Cesari
29. Judaism and Europe, Miri Freud-Kandel
30. Eastern Religions and Europe, Martin Baumann
31. Non-religion and Europe, Josh Bullock and Stephen Bullivant
32. Managing Religious Diversity in Europe, Thomas Sealy, Tina Magazzini, Tariq Modood, and Anna Triandafyllidou
Part V: Religious Geography, Society, and Politics in Europe
33. The Baltic Countries, Sebastian Rimestad
34. Central Europe, Árpád von Klimó
35. France, Blandine Chelini-Pont
36. Germany, Michael Minkenberg
37. Ireland and the United Kingdom, Gladys Ganiel and Martin Steven
38. Italy, Claudio Ferlan and Marco Ventura
39. The Low Countries, Arie L. Molendijk
40. Nordic Europe, Inger Furseth
41. Southeast Europe, Vasilios N. Makrides
42. Spain and Portugal, Julio de la Cueva
43. Turkey, Ceren Özgül
44. Ukraine and Russia, Heather J. Coleman
45. Peripheries, Grace Davie, Ansgar Jödicke, and Vasilios N. Makrides
Appendix: Religions in Europe: A Statistical Summary, Gina A. ZurloÂ

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe

Edited by Grace Davie and Lucian N. Leustean

Oxford Handbooks

Author Information

Grace Davie, University of Exeter,Lucian N. Leustean, Aston University

Grace Davie is Professor Emeritus in the Sociology of Religion at the University of Exeter. She has held visiting appointments at Uppsala University, the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in Paris, and is a member of the Academia Europaea. Her publications include Religion in Britain since 1945 (Blackwell, 1994), Religion in Modern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2000), Europe: The Exceptional Case (DLT, 2002), The Sociology of Religion (Sage, 2007/2013), and Religion in Britain: A Persistent Paradox (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015).

Lucian N. Leustean is Reader in Politics and International Relations at Aston University, Birmingham. His publications include Forced Migration and Human Security in the Eastern Orthodox World (Routledge, 2019), Eastern Christianity and Politics in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2014), and The Ecumenical Movement and the Making of the European Community (Oxford University Press, 2014). He is the Founding Editor of the Routledge Book Series on Religion, Society and Government in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet States.

Contributors:

Christoph Auffarth, Bryan A. Banks, Martin Baumann, Matthew C. Briel, Stephen Bullivant, Josh Bullock, Jocelyne Cesari, Blandine Chelini-Pont, Heather J. Coleman, Frank Cranmer, Peter Cumper, Grace Davie, Julio de la Cueva, Norman Doe, W. Cole Durham, Jr., Erica Johnson Edwards, ÂClaudio Ferlan, Effie Fokas, François Foret, Miri Freud-Kandel, Inger Furseth, Gladys Ganiel, Steven Grosby, James L. Guth, Jeffrey Haynes, Ansgar Jödicke, Dianne Kirby, Paschalis M. Kitromilides, Geoffrey Koziol, Petr Kratochvíl, Lucian N. Leustean, Tom Lewis, John T. S. Madeley, Tina Magazzini, Vasilios N. Makrides, Michael Minkenberg, Tariq Modood, Arie L. Molendijk, Brent F. Nelsen, Ceren Özgül, Peter Pavlovic, Sebastian Rimestad, Thomas Sealy, Lavinia Stan, Richard Steigmann-Gall, Martin Steven, Ryan Szpiech, Anna Triandafyllidou, Lucian Turcescu, Frank Turner, SJ, Marco Ventura, Kees van Kersbergen, Árpád von Klimó, Jonathan Willis, Gina A. Zurlo

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe

Edited by Grace Davie and Lucian N. Leustean

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Reviews and Awards

"Attempting an overview of religion's significance in the fashioning of Europe is a Herculean task. So far as it is humanly achievable, however, Grace Davie and Lucian Leustean, together with their army of contributors, have succeeded mightily ... It will be foundational for the work of researchers in diverse fields for decades to come." -- Alexander Faludy, Church Times