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Religion and Civil Society in Europe

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Editors:
  1. Joep de Hart

    1. The Netherl. Inst. for Soc. Res. (SCP), The Hague, Netherlands

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  2. Paul Dekker

    1. , Institute for Social Research (SCP), Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands

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  3. Loek Halman

    1. Department of Sociology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: European Diversity and Divergences

    • Joep de Hart, Paul Dekker, Loek Halman
    Pages 1-12

  3. Religion and Civil Society: Theoretical Reflections

    • David Herbert
    Pages 13-45

  4. Religion, State and Civil Society in Europe: Triangular Entanglements

    • John T. S. Madeley
    Pages 47-68

  5. The Dynamics of Civil Society: Density, Age, Fertility and Completeness in the Religious Voluntary Sector

    • Sigrid Roßteutscher
    Pages 69-86

  6. Secularization and the Sources of Morality: Religion and Morality in Contemporary Europe

    • Loek Halman, Erik van Ingen
    Pages 87-107

  7. Social Trust and Religion in Sweden: Theological Belief Versus Social Organization

    • Susanne Wallman LundÃ¥sen, Lars TrägÃ¥rdh
    Pages 109-124

  8. Religion and Civil Society in Italy and in Other Latin Countries

    • Franco Garelli
    Pages 125-145

  9. Secular Values, Religious Beliefs and Civil Life: A Comparative Analysis of Helping Values and Behaviour

    • Kingsley Purdam, Ingrid Storm
    Pages 147-167

  10. Religion, Spirituality and Civic Participation

    • Joep de Hart, Paul Dekker
    Pages 169-188

  11. The Spiritual Revolution and Social Capital in Denmark

    • Peter Lüchau
    Pages 189-202

  12. Religion and Social Participation in Postcommunist Europe

    • Mălina Voicu, Claudiu TufiÅŸ
    Pages 203-217

  13. Religion and Civil Society in Ukraine and Russia

    • Olga Balakireva, Iuliia Sereda
    Pages 219-250

  14. The Impact of Religion on the Political Participation of Muslims: The Case of Switzerland

    • Marco Giugni, Matteo Gianni, Noémi Michel
    Pages 251-266

  15. Democracy, Civil Society, and Islam

    • Yilmaz Esmer
    Pages 267-284

  16. Does Praying Together Mean Staying Together? Religion and Civic Engagement in Europe and the United States

    • Pippa Norris
    Pages 285-305

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 307-312
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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.    

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Netherl. Inst. for Soc. Res. (SCP), The Hague, Netherlands

    Joep de Hart

  • , Institute for Social Research (SCP), Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands

    Paul Dekker

  • 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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