How does religion maintain or challenge discourses on national identity? What are the roles that religion plays on all sides – from Islamophobia of the radical right to the Christian alliances on both sides of the Atlantic, to the Islamic beliefs and practices of European citizens as well as migrant communities – in the constitution of Fortress Europe? Are there any alliances shaping between belief and unbelief on either side of the battle for the future of Europe?
These questions and more motivate the chapters in this timely interdisciplinary collection, with contributions focusing on diverse contexts throughout Europe involving a broad range of religious identifications and actors.
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Acknowledgements
I. Introduction
1. Introduction: Religion in Fortress Europe, Morteza Hashemi (University of Nottingham, UK) and Christopher R. Cotter (The Open University, UK)
II. Setting the Scene
2. Fortress Europe: Developments of a Concept Since the 1990s, Mike Slaven (University of Lincoln, UK)
III. Case Studies
3. Multicultural Anxieties in England: Schooling Liberalism and the Problem of Religious Expression, John Holmwood (University of Nottingham, UK)
4. Philanthropic Hyphenated Identity: Shia Pakistani-Scottish Health Activism in Scotland, Morteza Hashemi (University of Nottingham, UK)
5. An Embedded Minority: Young Alevis in Germany and Their Search for Identity, Martina Loth (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany)
6. ‘Christian Culture’ and its Others: Culturalised Religion, Islam and Confessional Christianity in the Netherlands, Daan Beekers (University of Edinburgh, UK)
7. Shaken identities: A Refused Handshake and its Politicization in Switzerland, Martin Bürgin (University of Zurich, Switzerland) and Philipp Hetmanczyk (University of Toronto, Canada)
8. Debating Irish Identity: Religion, Race, and Nation and the Construction of Irishness, Hazel O’Brien (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland)
9. Anti-Islam Politics, Christianity and Identity in the Finnish Public Sphere, Tuomas Äystö (University of Turku, Finland)
IV. Comparative Perspectives
10. Misrecognizing Muslim consciousness in Europe, Nasar Meer (University of Edinburgh, UK)
11. Afterword, Grace Davie (University of Exeter, UK)
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