Religion and Politics
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Annual of European and Global Studies Editors: Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski, Johann P. Arnason and Peter Wagner An annual collection of the best research on European and global themes, the Annual of European and Global Studies publishes issues with a specific focus, each addressing critical developments and controversies in the field. This topical first volume deals with the relationship between religion and politics as a key connecting link between European and global affairs. It discusses the role of religion and its prospects in the contemporary world against the background of theoretical and…mehr

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Annual of European and Global Studies Editors: Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski, Johann P. Arnason and Peter Wagner An annual collection of the best research on European and global themes, the Annual of European and Global Studies publishes issues with a specific focus, each addressing critical developments and controversies in the field. This topical first volume deals with the relationship between religion and politics as a key connecting link between European and global affairs. It discusses the role of religion and its prospects in the contemporary world against the background of theoretical and empirical research. The debates on religion and politics have to a high degree focused on contrasts between Europe and other parts of the world; the long-established assumption that modern societies are on a secularising path seems to have a stronger claim to validity in Europe than elsewhere. The book shows, however, that if European modernity represents an exit from religion, this historical process and its implications are still very imperfectly understood. On the one hand, the volume discusses growing Islamic presence in Europe as a reminder of enduring religious pluralism, not least in view of the high prominence given to Islamic experience in arguments against over-generalised notions of secularisation. On the other hand, the question of Christian-motivated extremism and religious nationalism is equally explored. Against this background, contributors to the volume discuss also the role of religion in non-European countries including China, Japan, Russia and the MENA region. Johann P. Arnason is emeritus professor of sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and visiting professor at the Faculty of Human Studies, Charles University, Prague. He is the co-editor of The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy (2013). Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski is professor and Chair of Political Science at the Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies, University of Wroclaw. He is the co-editor of Civic Resources and the Future of the European Union (2012). [WBC logo] Cover image: (c) manley099/iStockphoto.com Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com
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Johann P. Arnason is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Human Studies at Charles University, Prague. He taught sociology in Heidelberg and Bielefeld from 1972 to 1975, and at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, from 1975 to 2003. He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and at the University of Leipzig, and a research fellow of the Alexander v. Humboldt-Stiftung, the Swedish Institute of Advanced Studies, the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (Essen), the Lichtenberg-Kolleg in Göttingen and the Max-Weber-Kolleg in Erfurt. His research interests centre on social theory and historical sociology, with particular emphasis on the comparative analysis of civilizations. Ireneusz P. Karolewski is Head of the Political Studies Department in the The Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies at the University of Wroclaw. He graduated and received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Potsdam in Germany. He was Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Potsdam from 1999 to 2008. He has held guest professorships and fellowships at the Harvard University, the Université de Montréal, Institut D'Etudes Politiques in Lille, the University of California in Santa Barbara and the New York University. He is co-convenor of the ECPR Standing Group on Identity and managing editor of the Annual of European and Global Studies, published by Edinburgh University Press.