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Title Rethinking the space for religion : new actors in Central and Southeast Europe on religion, authenticity and belonging / edited by Catharina Raudvere, Krzysztof Stala & Trine Stauning Willert
Published Lund, Sweden : Nordic Academic Press, [2012]
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Description 332 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents CONFLICTING CONSTRUCTIONS: NATIONAL NARRATIVES IN EUROPE -- 1. Rethinking the space for religion: new actors in Central and Southeast Europe on religion, authenticity and belonging / Catharina Raudvere, Krzysztof Stala & Trine Stauning Willert -- NEGOTIATING EUROPEAN BELONGING AND THE USES OF RELIGION -- 2. Religion, gender and history: why the Czechs belong in Europe / Jitka Malečková -- 3. 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 -- RELIGION AND NATIONAL HERITAGE IN CENTRAL EUROPE -- 5. Duke Widukind and Charlemagne in twentieth-century Germany: myths of origin and constructs of national identity / Peter Lambert -- 6. Myth and victimhood and cult of authenticity: sacralizing the nation in Estonia and Poland / Jörg Hackmann & Marko Lehti -- 7. Open Catholicism vs. theocratic impulses: the Polish Catholic Church as a source of liberal democratic values or a hegemonic structure? -- RELIGIOUS STRATEGIES -- 8. Remembering the new martyrs and confessors of Russia / Karin Hyldal Christensen -- 9. The role of Orthodox Christianity in Greece / Victor Roudometof -- 10. Exploring the particular in the global world: three contemporary Bosnian theological writers on Islam, Sufism, authenticity and national belonging / Catharina Raudvere -- MYTHS AND MUSEUMS:OLD STORIES, NEW USES -- 11. Framing uses of the past: nations, academia and museums conjuring history / Peter Aronsson -- 12. Recycling ancient narrations on a post-modern market: some questions about myth today / Stefan Arvidsson
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
SUBJECT Europe -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045751
Author Raudvere, Catharina.
Stala, Krzysztof.
Willert, Trine Stauning.
ISBN 9789187121852 (hd.bd.)
9187121859 (hd.bd.)