| Description |
1 online resource (249 pages) |
| Contents |
Religious Actors in the Public Sphere Means, objectives and effects; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Acta non verba: typifying Europe's religious political parties; 3 Churches in the European integration process: the diminishing confessional divide in Euroskepticism; 4 Between hospitality and competition: the Catholic Church and immigration in Spain; 5 Religious organisations as political actors in the context of migration: Islam and Orthodoxy in Austria; 6 Political opportunity and Muslim leadership in Brussels |
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7 New actors in the governance of religious diversity in European cities: the role of interfaith platforms8 Conceptualizing religious advocacy: religious interest groups and the process of public policy making; 9 Religious economies and religious freedom: a transnational approach; 10 The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Movement and its media strategies: the mobilising effect of religion in contentious politics; 11 Politics and Islam in Turkey: from Atatürk to the AKP; 12 Conclusion: religious actors in the public sphere -- patterns and perspectives; Index |
| Summary |
This book seeks to argue that religious actors play a crucial role in the complex processes of entering or re-entering the public spheres of state, political, and civil society. Seeking to ameliorate the analytical lacuna and concentrating on both the meso and micro levels of religious public involvement, the contributors explain how representatives from religious and political institutions act and interact in a variety of ways for various purposes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hennig, Anja
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| ISBN |
9780203807354 |
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0203807359 |
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