Rethinking the space for religion : new actors in Central and Southeast Europe on religion, authenticity and belonging /

A broad discussion about how history and religion contribute to identity politics in contemporary Europe, this book provides case studies exemplifying how public intellectuals and academics have taken an active part in the construction of recent and traditional pasts. Instead of repeating the simpli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Raudvere, Catharina (Editor ), Stala, Krzysztof (Editor ), Willert, Trine Stauning (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lund, Sweden : Nordic Academic Press, [2012]
Temas:
RELIGION > General.
Religion.
RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State
Europe > Religion.
Europe.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • [Part I.] Conflicting constructions : national narratives in Europe. Rethinking the space for religion : new actors in Central and Southeast Europe on religion, authenticity and belonging / Catharina Raudvere, Krzysztof Stala & Trine Stauning Willert
  • [Part II.] Negotiating European belonging and the uses of religion. Religion, gender and history : why the Czechs belong in Europe / Jitka Malečková
  • Romania's cultural identity and the European challenge : convictions, options, illusions / Adrian Velicu
  • Cultural religion or religious purism : discourses on Orthodoxy, authenticity and national identity in Greece / Trine Stauning Willert
  • [Part III.] Religion and national heritage in Central Europe. Duke Widukind and Charlemagne in twentieth-century Germany : myths of origin and constructs of national identity / Peter Lambert
  • Myth and victimhood and cult of authenticity : sacralizing the nation in Estonia and Poland / Jörg Hackmann & Marko Lehti
  • Open Catholicism vs. theocratic impulses : the Polish Catholic Church as a source of liberal democratic values or a hegemonic structure? / Krzysztof Stala
  • [Part IV.] Religious strategies in a post-1989 perspective. Remembering the new martyrs and confessors of Russia / Karin Hyldal Christensen
  • The role of Orthodox Christianity in Greece / Victor Roudometof
  • Exploring the particular in the global world : three contemporary Bosnian theological writers on Islam, Sufism, authenticity and national belonging / Catharina Raudvere
  • [Part V.] Myths and museums : old stories, new uses. Framing uses of the past : nations, academia and museums conjuring history / Peter Aronsson
  • Recycling ancient narrations on a post-modern market : some questions about myth today / Stefan Arvidsson.

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