The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics in Europe is an outstanding reference source to this engaging subject area. The relationships between religion and politics are recognised as central to our understanding of contemporary European life and are increasingly investigated from a variety of approaches and perspectives.
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics in Europe is an outstanding reference source to this engaging subject area. In response to certain religion-related political developments, including the terrorist attacks in echoing that of 9/11; the rise of the far right and populism linked to anti-Islamic rhetoric in the context of migration of Muslims into Europe; and a series of controversies to do with free speech and hate speech have led to a catalyst for a surge in interdisciplinary scholarship. The relationships between religion and politics are recognised as central to our understanding of contemporary European life and are increasingly investigated from a variety of approaches and perspectives. Comprising 31 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into three parts:
- Theoretical Underpinnings and Methodological Perspectives
- Actors, Policies and Institutions
- Emerging Themes and Current Debates
Within these sections central issues, debates and problems to religion and politics are examined, including: migration, religion in the city, digital religion, environmentalism, humour, celebrity and leadership, activism, authority, citizenship, mediatization, secularism, judicialization, marketization, political economy, security, European parliament, human rights, party politics, populism, feminism, political violence, hate speech, bioethics, pandemics and health, cults, race, equality and inequality. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics in Europe is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and politics. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as cultural studies, media studies, anthropology and sociology.
1. Introduction Part I: Theoretical Underpinnings and Methodological
Perspectives
2. Multiple Secularities, Genealogies of Secularism, or
Postsecularity? Theorizing Religion and Politics in and beyond Europe
3.
Religious symbols and the rise of heritage religion
4. Illiberal Identity
Politics and Culturalized Christianity. Commonalities and Differences in
Europe
5. Mediatization, Religion and Politics
6. Judicialization of politics
and judicialization of religion in the two major court systems in Europe
7.
Religious markets, religious marketing, and individual religious choice in
Europe
8. Religion and Human Rights: European Puzzles
9. Intersecting gender,
religion, and politics: an overview and a research agenda Part II: Actors,
Policies and Institutions
10. Religion, security and European borders
11. The
intersection of religion and politics in the case law of the Court of Justice
of the EU
12. Religion and the European Court of Human Rights
13. Religion
and party politics in Europe
14. Religion and religious minorities in public
institutions
15. Religion and Civil Society in Europe
16. Religion and the
economy in Europe
17. Atheism in Europe: Insights from the Pandemic
18. The
EU Guidelines on the promotion and protection of freedom of religion or
belief and the EUs External Action: A temporal assessment Part III: Emerging
Themes and Current Debates
19. Governing Religious Diversity in Europe
20.
The governance of religion in contemporary Europe: temporalities, scales and
socio-political factors
21. Religion and environmentalism
22.
Femonationalism, Feminism and Religion
23. Gender, sexuality and
conservative movements in Europe: What are they? How to study them?
24.
Faith and Violence: Revisiting the Intersection of Religion, Politics, and
Terrorism in Europe
25. Morality Policies and Religion in Europes
Multi-Level Space
26. Keeping an Eye on The Cults: The Politics of New
Religious Movements in Post World-War II Europe
27. Religion, politics, and
the pandemic
28. Populism and Religion in Europe
29. Islam, neoliberalism,
and the making of sexual whiteness in Europe. The case of the Netherlands
30.
Religion and Free Speech: The Law and Politics of Regulating Hate Speech and
Blasphemy
31. Religious Actors and European Union Policies on Artificial
Intelligence
Effie Fokas teaches International Relations and European Affairs at the American College of Greece Deree, is a research associate at the London School of Economics (LSE) Hellenic Observatory, and is a senior research fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), where she has carried out a number of EUfunded research projects relevant to religion, politics, and law, including a Marie Curie Fellowship on pluralism and religious freedom in majority Orthodox contexts and a European Research Council (ERC)funded project on grassroots mobilisations around European Court of Human Rights religionrelated case law (Grassrootsmobilise, 20142019).
Alberta Giorgi is an Associate Professor in Sociology of Cultural and Communication Processes at the University of Bergamo, and an associate researcher of the research groups CRAFT and CES. She is coeditorinchief of the Journal of Religion in Europe and sits in the board of European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, Religiogeographies, Polis, Partecipazione e Conflitto, and the Routledge book series Gendering the Study of Religion in the Social Sciences. Her work explores boundaries and classifications, particularly at the intersection of politics, gender, religion, and science as knowledge production. She has recently coedited, with J. Garraio and T. Toldy, Religion, Populism, Gender in the Mediterranean (Routledge 2023).
