Europeanization, Religion and Collective Identities in an Enlarging Europe
Willfried Spohn
This article analyzes the conflictive role of religion in post-1989 Europe. Three major reasons for this are addressed: first, restoration structural and cultural pluralism European civilization since breakdown communism entails reconstitution full diversity religion. Second, international migration as a crucial part globalization has intensified, contributing to transformation Europe into complex multi-cultural pluri-religious societies. Third, wave contemporary been accompanied by an intensification inter-civilizational inter-religious encounters conflicts — particularly between Christianity Islam. As result, integration enlargement secular humanist mode religious governance basically challenged three-fold revitalization The growing tendency is respond challenge enhancing Christian foundations rather than, argues, follow more cosmopolitan, secularist pluralist integration.
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