Church and State in Contemporary Europe

Zsolt Enyedi, John T.S. Madeley, Zsolt Enyedi, John T.S. Madeley

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• eBook ISBN: 9781135761400
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This volume represents an attempt in integrating a wide range of theoretically relevant issues into the identification and analysis of church-state patterns. Each chapter focuses on the analysis of a particular theme and its role in shaping, and/or being shaped by, church-state relations.

Notes on Contributors

John Anderson is Senior Lecturer and Chairman of the Department of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. His research interests lie in post-Soviet politics, in particular political change in Central Asia, and in religion and politics. His publications include Religion, State and Politics in the Soviet Union and the Successor States (1994) and The Politics of Religion in Transitional Polities’ (forthcoming).

Mark Donovan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of European Studies, Cardiff University. He is editor of Modern Italy. Recent publications include the two-volume reader ‘Italy’ (1998); Changing Party Systems in Western Europe (1998, co-edited with D.Broughton); and Writing National Histories. Western Europe since 1800 (1999, co-edited with S.Berger and K.Passmore).

Zsolt Enyedi is Assistant Professor at the Political Science Department of the Central European University. His research is focused on party politics, pillarisation, religion and politics and authoritarianism. His publications include Politics in the Shadow of the Cross (1998) and Authoritarianism and Prejudice (1999, co-edited with F.Er s).

Göran Gustafsson has just retired from a Chair in the Sociology of Religion at the Theological Faculty, Lund University, Sweden. His research interests include the relation between religion and politics and aspects of the secularisation process in Sweden. He has led several co-Nordic research programmes. Recent publications include Folkkyrkor och religiös pluralism—den nordiska religiösa modellen (National Churches and Religious Pluralism—the Nordic Religious Model) (2000, with Thorleif Pettersson).

Bill Kissane is a Lecturer in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics, where he took his Ph.D. in 1998 He is an expert on Irish and comparative politics and is currently working on a study of the Irish Civil War. He recently published Explaining Irish Democracy (2002).

John T.S.Madeley is a Lecturer in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. He writes on the government and politics of the Nordic countries and on religion and politics, particularly in Europe. He recently published the reader Religion and Politics in the Ashgate series: International Library of Politics and Comparative Government (2002).

George Th.Mavrogordatos is Professor of Political Science at the University of Athens. His books include Stillborn Republic (1983), for which he received the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the American Political Science Association. Most recently, he has published (in Greek) a book entitled Pressure Groups and Democracy.

Michael Minkenberg is Professor of Political Science at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. His research interests are comparative right-wing radicalism and the relationship between religion and democracy. He is author of Die neue radikale Rechte im Vergleich. USA, Frankreich, Deutschla...

Table of contents

• COVER PAGE
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• EUROPEAN LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND THE PRINCIPLE OF STATE RELIGIOUS NEUTRALITY
• A FRAMEWORK FOR THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS IN EUROPE
• CHURCH-STATE SEPARATION SWEDISH-STYLE
• THE ILLUSION OF STATE NEUTRALITY IN A SECULARISING IRELAND
• THE ITALIAN STATE: NO LONGER CATHOLIC, NO LONGER CHRISTIAN
• ORTHODOXY AND NATIONALISM IN THE GREEK CASE
• CATHOLICISM AND DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION IN SPAIN AND POLAND
• THE CONTESTED POLITICS OF POSITIVE NEUTRALITY IN HUNGARY
• THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND CIVIL SOCIETY: DEMOCRATIC OPTIONS IN the post-Communist CZECH REPUBLI
• THE POLICY IMPACT OF CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS: FAMILY POLICY AND ABORTION IN BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND GERMANY
• CONCLUSION: EMERGING ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS
• ABSTRACTS
• NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS