TY - BOOK AU - Árnason,Jóhann Páll AU - Karolewski,Ireneusz Paweł TI - Religion and politics: European and global perspectives T2 - Annual of European and Global Studies SN - 9780748691739 U1 - 306 PY - 2014/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Religion and politics KW - Europe KW - Religion KW - Political aspects N1 - This volume is a collection of articles in memory of the late Willfried Spohn; Includes bibliographical references and index; Ch. 1; Introduction; Johann P. Arnason and Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski --; Johann P. Arnason and Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski --; Ch. 2; The religio-political nexus: historical and comparative reflections; Johann P. Arnason; Ch. 3; Politics and religion in a global age; Jeffrey Haynes --; Ch. 4; Comparative secularisms and the politics of modernity /; Linell E. Cady and Elizabeth Shakman Hurd --; Ch. 5; Europe in the global rise of religious nationalism; Mark Juergensmeyer --; Ch. 6; The European Union's civil religion in the making?; Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski --; Ch. 7; Democracy, secularism and Islam in Turkey; Ayhan Kaya --; Ch. 8; Orthodox religion and politics in post-soviet Russia; Mikhail Maslovskiy and Nikita Shangin --; Ch. 9; Religion and politics, church and state in Chinese history; John Lagerwey --; Ch. 10; Religion and the state in contemporary Japan; Elisabetta Porcu --; Ch. 11; Arab revolutions and political Islam : a structural approach; Karel Cerny --; Ch. 12; Beyond post-secularism : religion in political analysis /; Michal Matlak N2 - Deals with relationship between religion and politics as a key connecting link between European and global affairs. It discuses the role of religion and its prospects in the contemporary world against the background of theoretical and empirical research ER -