Religion in the New Europe

• Main Author: Krzysztof Michalski (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Central European University Press 2006
• Subjects: identity crisis; European secular identities; Muslisms; secularisation; European identity; laïcité; multiculturalism; social cohesion; Christianity; Catholic church; democracy; religion; Turkey; Islam; European Federation; political ideologies; integration; cooperation
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The articles in this volume deal with the role of Christianity in the definition of European identity. Europeans often identify advanced civilizations with secularity. But religion is very much alive in other fast developing countries of the world. In Europe, nevertheless, the organized churches ver...