Editors:
- Based on the European Values Survey (EVS) conducted from 1981-2009
- Focuses on the diversity of Europe and how secularization has affected civic engagement
- Contributors are leaders in the field of civil society and religious life
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Religion is back again in Europe after never having been gone. It is manifest in the revival of religious institutions and traditions in former communist countries, in political controversies about the relationship between the church(es) and the state and about the freedom of religion and the freedom to criticize religion, and in public unease about religious minorities. This book is about religion and civil society in Europe. It moves from general theoretical and normative approaches of this relationship, via the examination of national patterns of religion-state relations, to in-depth analyses of the impact of religion and secularization on the values, pro-social attitudes and civic engagement of individuals. It covers Europe from the Lutheran North to the Catholic South, and from the secularized West to the Orthodox East and Islamic South-East with comparative analyses and country studies, concluding with an overall Europe-USA comparison.  Â
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Keywords
- Comeback of Religion in Europe
- Help and Helping by Religion and Non Religion
- Helping Values and Behavior across Europe
- History of Civil Society
- Islam and Civil Society
- Mediatization of Religion and Politics
- Political Participation of Muslims in Switzerland
- Religion and Civic Engagement in Europe
- Religion and Civic Engagement in the United States
- Religion and Civil Society
- Religion and Civil Society in Russia
- Religion and Morality in Contemporary Europe
- Religion in Italy
- Religion in Latin countries
- Religion in Postcommunist Europe
- Religion in Sweden
- Religion in Ukraine
- Social Trust in Sweden
- Spiritual Revolution in Denmark
- State and Civil Society in Europe
- The Dynamics of Civil Society
- Vitality of Religious Civil Society
Editors and Affiliations
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The Netherl. Inst. for Soc. Res. (SCP), The Hague, Netherlands
Joep de Hart
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, Institute for Social Research (SCP), Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands
Paul Dekker
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Department of Sociology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands
Loek Halman
About the editors
Joep de Hart is endowed Professor in the Sociology of Religion at the Protestant Theological University (Amsterdam/Groningen), and a research fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Social Research | SCP.
Paul Dekker is Professor of Civil Society at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and a research fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Social Research | SCP.
Loek Halman is Associate Professor of Sociology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and one of the coordinators of the European Values Study.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Religion and Civil Society in Europe
Editors: Joep de Hart, Paul Dekker, Loek Halman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6815-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6814-7Published: 30 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8084-1Published: 08 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6815-4Published: 15 July 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 312
Topics: Sociology, general, Religious Studies, general, Political Science
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