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Religion and the Struggle for European Union: Confessional Culture and the Limits of Integration (Religion and Politics series) - Softcover

Nelsen, Brent F.; Guth, James L.

 
9781626160705: Religion and the Struggle for European Union: Confessional Culture and the Limits of Integration (Religion and Politics series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1626160708 ISBN 13: 9781626160705
Publisher: Georgetown University Press, 2015

Synopsis

In Religion and the Struggle for European Union, Brent F. Nelsen and James L. Guth delve into the powerful role of religion in shaping European attitudes on politics, political integration, and the national and continental identities of its leaders and citizens. Nelsen and Guth contend that for centuries Catholicism promoted the universality of the Church and the essential unity of Christendom. Protestantism, by contrast, esteemed particularity and feared Catholic dominance. These differing visions of Europe have influenced the process of postwar integration in profound ways. Nelsen and Guth compare the Catholic view of Europe as a single cultural entity best governed as a unified polity against traditional Protestant estrangement from continental culture and its preference for pragmatic cooperation over the sacrifice of sovereignty. As the authors show, this deep cultural divide, rooted in the struggles of the Reformation, resists the ongoing secularization of the continent. Unless addressed, it threatens decades of hard-won gains in security and prosperity. Farsighted and rich with data, Religion and the Struggle for European Union offers a pragmatic way forward in the EU's attempts to solve its social, economic, and political crises.

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About the Author

Brent F. Nelsen is a professor of political science at Furman University. He is the coeditor of The European Union: Readings on the Theory and Practice of Integration and editor of Norway and the European Community. James L. Guth is William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science, Furman University. He is the coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics with Corwin E. Smidt and Lyman A. Kellstedt.

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Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1626160708
ISBN 13 
9781626160705
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
344