Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe

This authoritative collection offers a detailed overview of religious ideas, structures, and institutions in the making of Europe. Written by leading scholars in the field, it demonstrates the enduring presence of lived and institutionalized religion in the social networks of identity, policy, and power over two millennia of European history.

List of contents

• List of Contributors


• List of Figures and Tables


• List of Abbreviations


• Chronology


• Map


• 1: Grace Davie and Lucian N. Leustean: Religion and Europe: Methods, Theories and Approaches


• Part I: Religion and the Making of Europe


• 2: Christoph Auffarth: Religion and Classical Europe, Twelfth Century BCE-600 CE


• 3: Geoffrey Koziol: Religion and Latin Western Europe, 600-1500


• 4: Matthew C. Briel: Religion and Orthodox Eastern Europe, 600-1500


• 5: Ryan Szpiech: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Medieval Europe


• 6: Jonathan Willis: Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe


• 7: Paschalis M. Kitromilides: The Enlightenment and Religion in Europe


• 8: Bryan A. Banks and Erica Johnson Edwards: Religion and Revolution in Europe


• 9: Steven Grosby: Religion and Nationality in Europe


• Part II: Religion, Ideology, and Modernity in Europe


• 10: Richard Steigmann-Gall: Religion and Dictatorship in Europe


• 11: Kees van Kersbergen: Christian Democracy and Europe


• 12: Dianne Kirby: Religion and the Cold War in Europe


• 13: Lucian Turcescu and Lavinia Stan: Religion and Europe after the Fall of the Iron Curtain


• 14: John T. S. Madeley: Religion-State Relations in Europe


• 15: Grace Davie: Religion, Secularity, and Secularization in Europe


• Part III: Religious Dialogue, Public Policy, and International Institutions in Europe


• 16: Lucian N. Leustean: Religion and Politics in the European Union


• 17: Norman Doe and Frank Cranmer: Religion and Law in the European Union


• 18: François Foret: Religion and the European Parliament


• 19: François Foret: Religion and the European External Action Service


• 20: Peter Pavlovic: The Conference of European Churches


• 21: Frank Turner SJ: The Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community (COMECE)


• 22: W. Cole Durham, Jr.: Religion and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe


• 23: Peter Cumper and Tom Lewis: Religion, Belief, and the European Court of Human Rights


• 24: Jeffrey Haynes: Religion and the United Nations


• Part IV: Religious Diversity, World Religions, and the Idea of Europe


• 25: Petr Kratochvíl: Roman Catholicism and Europe


• 26: Brent F. Nelsen and James L. Guth: Protestantism and Europe


• 27: Effie Fokas: Eastern Orthodoxy and Europe


• 28: Jocelyne Cesari: Islam and Europe


• 29: Miri Freud-Kandel: Judaism and Europe


• 30: Martin Baumann: Eastern Religions and Europe


• 31: Josh Bullock and Stephen Bullivant: Non-religion and Europe


• 32: Thomas Sealy, Tina Magazzini, Tariq Modood, and Anna Triandafyllidou: Managing Religious Diversity in Europe


• Part V: Religious Geography, Society, and Politics in Europe


• 33: Sebastian Rimestad: The Baltic Countries


• 34: Árpád von Klimó: Central Europe


• 35: Blandine Chelini-Pont: France


• 36: Michael Minkenberg: Germany


• 37: Gladys Ganiel and Martin Steven: Ireland and the United Kingdom


• 38: Claudio Ferlan and Marco Ventura: Italy


• 39: Arie L. Molendijk: The Low Countries


• 40: Inger Furseth: Nordic Europe


• 41: Vasilios N. Makrides: Southeast Europe


• 42: Julio de la Cueva: Spain and Portugal


• 43: Ceren Özgül: Turkey


• 44: Heather J. Coleman: Ukraine and Russia


• 45: Grace Davie, Ansgar Jödicke, and Vasilios N. Makrides: Peripheries


• Appendix: Religions in Europe: A Statistical Summary

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Additional text

The present Handbook seeks to survey and analyse the various aspects of this relationship. It provides excellent treatment for theologians, for other scholars of religion or other disciplines such as sociology and history, and also for public policy makers in different areas.

Product details

• Authors: Grace (University of Exeter) Leustean Davie
• Assisted by: Grace Davie (Editor), Lucian N. Leustean (Editor), Leustean Lucian N. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780198834267
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883426-7
• No. of pages: 880
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, RELIGION / History, History of Religion, Religious issues & debates, Religious issues and debates