Christendom and European Identity
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Christendom and European Identity

The Legacy of a Grand Narrative since 1789

  1. 397 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Christendom and European Identity

The Legacy of a Grand Narrative since 1789

About this book

This book critically explores the idea of Europe since the French Revolution from the perspective of intellectual history. It traces the dominant and recurring theme of Europe-as-Christendom in discourse concerning the relationship of religion, politics and society, in historiography and hermeneutics, and in theories and constructions of identity and 'otherness'. It examines the evolution of a grand narrative by which European elites have sought to define European and national identity. This narrative, the author argues, maintains the existence of common historical and intellectual roots, common values, culture and religion. The book explores its powerful legacy in the positive creation of a sense of European unity, the ways in which it has been exploited for ideological purposes, and its impact on non-Christian communities within Europe.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9783110182446
eBook ISBN
9783110914610
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Modern History

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Explanatory Notes on the Text
  3. Introduction
  4. Part 1: Old and New models of Sovereignty in Europe-as-Christendom
  5. Chapter 1. Christendom revived: Catholic and Romantic visions of Europe
  6. Chapter 2. Protestantism and Anglicanism in the 19th century: The challenge to Europe-as-Christendom
  7. Chapter 3. Liberalism and popular sovereignty: Christendom reconstructed
  8. Chapter 4. The significance of the Christendom narrative in 20th-century Christian Democracy and Christian Socialism
  9. Chapter 5. Federalism, Confederation and the new Christendom: 19th-century models of European unity
  10. Chapter 6. The Christendom legacy in 20th-century federalism
  11. Part 2: ‘Christendom’ as the Realm of Universal History
  12. Chapter 7. The appropriation of Universal History
  13. Chapter 8. Christendom as a hermeneutical realm
  14. Chapter 9. The Christendom legacy in 20th-century histories
  15. Chapter 10. From Universal History to the history of Europe as Idea
  16. Part 3: The ‘Spirit of Europe’ and its ‘Others’
  17. Chapter 11. Nationalism, Europeanism and the grand narrative
  18. Chapter 12. Pan-Germanism and Prussian militarism: a remodelled narrative
  19. Chapter 13. Europe-as-Christendom and the Jews of the European Diaspora
  20. Chapter 14. From ‘barbarians without’ to ‘barbarians within’: Christendom and the idea of civilization in the ‘long’ 19th century
  21. Chapter 15. Islam and Christendom
  22. Chapter 16. The question of Russia
  23. Chapter 17. The 20th century: barbarism and civilization reassessed
  24. Chapter 18. Christendom as the ‘spirit of Europe’
  25. Conclusion
  26. Bibliography
  27. Index